Marilyn Hacker Summary
Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker fits into the contemporary poetry scene because of her unusual critical perspective, which bridges the traditional and the feminist. In a literary era in which women are purportedly con... Read more

Critical Essay by Marilyn Krysl [Taking Notice] is an impressive work of art, and Marilyn Hacker is an artist with a sharp, crystalline mind. She is never fashionable—and poetry these days is ... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Plumly With Taking Notice …, Marilyn Hacker has written what constitutes the last volume in a trilogy. Her concerns are basically the same—esthetic and sexual ... Read more

Critical Essay by Mary Kinzie Thematically, the poems in Taking Notice, by Marilyn Hacker, betray their imprisonment in the material present. Although there is much talk about the merging of affectio... Read more

In the following review of Winter Numbers, Rothschild praises the humor and tenderness of Hacker's verse. This is the seventh volume of poems by Marilyn Hacker, who for the last few years wa... Read more

In the following essay, Kumin discusses the poetry of Hacker's award-winning volume, Winter Numbers. The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of ＄10,000, awarded annually for the most outstan... Read more

In the following interview, Hacker discusses issues of poetic form in her own work and in the verse of other poets of the past and present. I interviewed Marilyn Hacker at the 1994 AWP conference i... Read more

In the following review, Gates discusses the recurring references to death in Hacker's Squares and Courtyards. Marilyn Hacker's ninth book of poems, Squares and Courtyards, as the tit... Read more

In the following excerpt, Holland reviews Separations, praising the poet's technique but criticizing the overall dreariness and pessimism of her verses. Marilyn Hacker's clowning does... Read more

In the following excerpt, Stitt reviews Assumptions, claiming that the “intentionally outrageous confessions” of the events of Hacker's own life are less effective than the poems ... Read more

In the following review, West praises Hacker's treatment of personal heroics, calling Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons “wise, funny, brave, and beautifully written.” ... Read more

In the following review, West comments on Hacker's use of a wide variety of forms, rhyme schemes, and metrical patterns. Marilyn Hacker's previous book, Love, Death and the Changing o... Read more

[Schulman is an American educator, writer, poet, and critic. In the following excerpt, she favorably assesses the poetic style and themes of Winter Numbers.] Marilyn Hacker's seventh book, W... Read more

[In the following excerpt, Joseph favorably reviews Winter Numbers, focusing on the "Cancer Winter" sonnets.] [In Hacker's new book, Winter Numbers], the central motifs of her ... Read more