Names: Poems

“[Hacker] powerfully brings her formal mastery and her political sensibility together.”—American Poet In Names, Marilyn Hacker juxtaposes glimpses of contemporary lives with dialogues undertaken in signal poetic voices. Using her signature wit, passion, and mastery of received and invented forms, she convinces us to believe in a world made possible by language—prescient, playful, polyglot, and often breathtaking. from “Ghazal: The Beloved”:Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the be...