A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global,
from one of our most essential poets. 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 cafes, 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.
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