{"product_id":"calligraphies-poems-hardcover","title":"Calligraphies: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarilyn Hacker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving from Paris to Beirut and back, \u003cem\u003eCalligraphies\u003c\/em\u003e is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming connection in everyday moments--a lunch of \"standing near the fridge with \/ labneh, two verbs, and a spoon\"--as a counterweight to the precarity of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith signature passion and agility, Hacker draws from French, Arabic, and English to probe the role of language in identity and revolution. Amid conversations in smoky cafes, personal mourning, and political turmoil, she traces the lines between exiles and expats, immigrants and refugees. A series of \"Montpeyroux Sonnets\" bookends the volume, cataloguing months in 2021 and 2022 in which the poet observes a village \"in pandemic mode\" and reflects on her own aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a variety of tones and formal registers, from vivid crowns of sonnets to insistent ghazals to elegiac pantoums and riffs on the renga, \u003cem\u003eCalligraphies\u003c\/em\u003e explores a world opened up by language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Marilyn Hacker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Like all great poets, [Marilyn Hacker] transcends the very material she collects and alters. Her true quest is for language that will realize the stranger, and, in doing so, unify the self.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Grace Schulman, \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Marilyn] Hacker is a swashbuckling wielder of poetry's most challenging forms (she writes a ghazal with more fluency than most poets can manage a haiku).\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--David Orr, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A poet who connects the dots between the body and the body politic, [Marilyn Hacker] is also that rarest of poetic animals, one who writes in meter and rhyme with a radical agenda.... [She] channel[s] a fierce energy into a signature tone that is at once casual, intense, and brimming with wordplay.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Alicia Ostriker, \u003cem\u003eWomen's Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Marilyn] Hacker is, to use a trite term, a major poet. More than that she is exciting and true.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--George Szirtes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A member of a feminist-poetry sisterhood, [Marilyn] Hacker is allied with Carolyn Forché as she bears witness; with Adrienne Rich as she shatters silences; and with Audre Lorde as she shows us the ravages of illness and the courage to confront it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Ann van Buren, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Marilyn Hacker is one of our greatest poets, according to every critical sense by which we measure a poet's greatness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Lawrence Joseph\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731843420223,"sku":"9781324036463","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1d48566f7489c6896940e961a5f03d86.webp?v=1765130328","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/calligraphies-poems-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}