Marilyn Hacker

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  • Barrington, Judith. Review of Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons. 13th Moon 9, nos. 1-2 (1991): 136-38. (Gives a favorable review of Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons from a feminist perspective.)
  • Campo, Rafael. "About Marilyn Hacker." Ploughshares 22 (spring 1996): 195-99. (Overview of the poet's life and career as writer, editor, and teacher.)
  • Davis, Ellen. Review of Winter Numbers and Selected Poems: 1965-1990. Prairie Schooner 71, no. 3 (fall 1997): 184-86. (Praises Hacker's mastery of difficult forms as well as her unflinching treatment of painful subject matter.)
  • Disch, Thomas M. "Poetry Chronicle." Hudson Review 48, no. 2 (summer 1995): 339-49. (Contends that Hacker uses the constraints of formalism particularly well when dealing with the subject matter of Winter Numbers—subject matter that includes death, loss, and the ravages of AIDS and breast cancer.)
  • Foy, John. "The Marriage of Logic and Desire: Some Reflections on Form." Parnassus: Poetry in Review 23, nos.1-2 (1998): 287-308. (Discusses the “new formalism” in contemporary poetry including Hacker's Winter Numbers and Selected Poems: 1965-1990.)
  • Gardinier, Suzanne. "Marilyn Hacker (1942- )." In Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States, edited by Sandra Pollack and Denise D. Knight, pp. 258-68. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993. (Overview of Hacker's life, themes, and critical reception.)
  • Goldstein, Nancy. "Hacker: Heat, But Little Light." Sojourner: The Women's Forum 12, no. 12 (31 August 1987): 40. (Finds that, with the exception of its first section, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons is uneven and disappointing.)
  • Hammond, Karla. "An Interview with Marilyn Hacker." Frontiers 5, no. 3 (1981): 22-7. (Interview exploring Hacker's style, writing process, and subject matter.)
  • Hanifan, Jill. Review of Going Back to the River. 13th Moon 9, nos. 1-2 (1991): 139-43. (Favorably reviews Hacker's imagery and technique in her poetry collection Going Back to the River.)
  • Honicker, Nancy. "Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons: Writing/Living within Formal Constraints." In Freedom and Form: Essays in Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Esther Giger and Agnieszka Salska, pp. 94-103. Łódź, Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 1998. (Discusses Hacker's use of traditional forms in ways that prove more liberating than constraining.)
  • Howard, Richard. "The Education of the Poet: A Colloquy with Richard Howard and Marilyn Hacker." Antioch Review 58, no. 3 (summer 2000): 261-74. (Conversation focusing on the issues of education and influence on the poetic imagination.)
  • Jarman, Mark. "A Scale of Engagement, from Self to Form Itself." Hudson Review 15, no. 2 (summer 1987): 343-57. (Review of Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons exploring Hacker's use of autobiographical subject matter within the sonnet form.)
  • Kaganoff, Penny. Review of Going Back to the River: Poems. Publisher's Weekly 237, no. 9 (2 March 1990): 77. (Praises Hacker's formal mastery in a collection displaying “intelligence, wit and elegance.”)
  • Kinzie, Mary. "A Generation of Silver." American Poetry Review 10, no. 4 (July-August 1981): 11-12. (Unfavorable review of the poetry in Hacker's 1980 collection Taking Notice.)
  • Kirby, David. "Glad-Handling Her Way Through the World." New York Times (12 March 1995): 6. (Review of Selected Poems: 1965-1990 and Winter Numbers, praising Hacker's highly-accessible brand of formalism.)
  • McClatchy, J. D. "Figures in the Landscape." Poetry 138, no. 4 (July 1981): 231-33. (Favorable review of Taking Notice, praising in particular the collection's four sonnet sequences.)
  • Mitchell, Veronica. "Private Spaces Made Public." Gay and Lesbian Review 8, no. 4 (July-August 2001): 41. (Discusses Hacker's use of traditional forms in the poetry of Squares and Courtyards: Poems.)
  • Publisher's Weekly. Review of Selected Poems: 1965-1990. 241, no. 35 (29 August 1994): 67. (Recommends this collection of twenty-five years of Hacker's poetry to committed fans as well as to new readers.)
  • Rothschild, Matthew. Review of Squares and Courtyards: Poems. Progressive 65, no. 1 (January 2001): 42. (Praises Hacker's elegant poetry written in the aftermath of her personal experience with breast cancer.)
  • Russell, Sue. Review of Winter Numbers. Lambda Book Report 4, no. 7 (November-December 1994): 27-9. (Asserts that in Winter Numbers, Hacker, displaying her usual technical mastery, presents a far darker representation of late twentieth-century life than appeared in her earlier collections.)
  • Saner, Reg. "Studying Interior Architecture by Keyhole: Four Poets." Denver Quarterly 20, no. 1 (summer 1985): 107-17. (Includes a review of Hacker's Assumptions, noting the collection's emphasis on the mother/daughter theme.)
  • Schulman, Grace. "Chiliastic Sapphic." Nation, New York 259, no. 15 (7 November 1994): 548-52. (Traces Hacker's development as a writer from her first publication to the appearance of Winter Numbers and Selected Poems: 1965-1990.)
  • Thurston, Michael. "Poetry in Review." Yale Review 88, no. 3 (July 2000): 171-82. (Maintains that while Hacker's primary focus in Squares and Courtyards is personal experience, the poet seems more aware of historical circumstances than in her earlier work.)
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M. "Of Epic Proportions." Belles Lettres 3, no. 1 (31 October 1987): 12. (Review of Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, offering a favorable assessment of Hacker's treatment of the successive stages of a lesbian love affair.)
  • Walker, Cheryl. "Choosing Old Forms." Nation, New York 223, no. 8 (18 September 1976): 250-52. (Review of Separations that praises Hacker's use of the metrical patterns and rhyme schemes of the past.)
  • Weir, John. "Marilyn Hacker." Advocate 664 (20 September 1994): 51-4. (Conversation with Hacker about her life and work.)
  • West, Kathleene. "Never Boring." Belles Lettres 6, no. 3 (spring 1991): 52. (Maintains that the lives of Hacker's fictional personae serve as models of courageous living just as Hacker's work serves as a model for other poets.)

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