Experience the profound beauty of Marilyn Hacker's poetry collection, 'A Stranger's Mirror'. This captivating anthology showcases two decades of award-winning work, featuring selections from four previous volumes alongside twenty-five stunning new poems. From intimate reflections in a solitary bedroom to powerful depictions of life in a refugee camp, Hacker’s verses resonate with a multiplicity of voices that reveal the human experience.

Dive into the urban tapestry of cafes, bookstores, bridges, and bustling streets, capturing moments of solitude intertwined with vibrant demonstrations and candid conversations. Notably, Hacker's poetry engages with translations of French and Francophone poets, enriching the world of contemporary literature. Witness the emotional depth in contrapuntal monologues between a Palestinian and Israeli poet, and feel the urgency of intimate exchanges from across the globe, where even the backdrop of gunfire cannot drown out the search for connection.

This thoughtful collection includes various poetic forms—sonnets, ghazals, sapphics, and more—each serving as a conversation with literary predecessors. 'A Stranger's Mirror' is not just for poets; it invites anyone seeking language that articulates the nuances of our shared humanity.

Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9780393353310. Year: 2016. Publisher: W W Norton & Company. Pages: 304.

Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393353310
Year: 2016
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 304


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Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in A Stranger's Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp.


In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of caf?s, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas: a refugee camp on the Turkish/Syrian border; contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet; intimate and international exchanges abbreviated on Skype”perhaps with gunfire in the background.


These poems course through sonnets and ghazals, through sapphics and syllabics, through every historic-organic pattern, from renga to rubaiyat to Hayden Carruth's "paragraph". Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before, or who are writing as we read.


A Stranger's Mirror is not meant only for poets. These poems belong to anyone who has sought in language an expression and extension of his or her engagement with the world”far off or up close as the morning's first cup of tea.