{"title":"Marilyn Hacker","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Hacker’s work delves deeply into the intersections of personal experience and broader cultural narratives, offering readers a nuanced exploration of identity, memory, and emotion. Her poetry and prose are marked by precise language and a careful attention to form, inviting reflection on both intimate moments and universal themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the arts and culture tradition, Hacker’s writing often blends lyrical beauty with intellectual rigour, making her an essential voice for those interested in contemporary poetry that bridges the personal and the political with elegance and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-strangers-mirror-by-marilyn-hacker-9780393353310","title":"A Stranger's Mirror","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in \u003cem\u003eA Stranger's Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafés, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems course through sonnets and ghazals, through sapphics and syllabics, through every historic-organic pattern, from renga to rubaïyat to Hayden Carruth's \"paragraph.\" Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before, or who are writing as we read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Stranger's Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470063288556,"sku":"9780393353310","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393353310-a-stranger-s-mirror.jpg?v=1775210566"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/marilyn-hacker.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}