Taking Notice

by Marilyn Hacker

A new volume of fluidly feminist verse by the author of Presentation Piece who continues to display a command of poetic technique and structure as well as a richly ripening vision

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, critic, and professor of English.

Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.

Reviews

[Sara Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this collection and devoured it in one day. She is such a master of words and her use of the aesthetic of sound and alliteration and repetition was a joy to read and I will definitely re-read this soon to dig into it even deeper.