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A Stranger's Mirror - New and Selected Poems 1994-2014 (Paperback)
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A Stranger's Mirror - New and Selected Poems 1994-2014 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
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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 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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