Going Back to the River [Paperback]

Marilyn Hacker (Author)

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Review

After Assumption
Against Silence
Alba Near Impruneta
April Interval
Celles
Country & Western
Country & Western 2
Cultural Exchanges
Days Of 1944: Three Friends
Dear Jool, I Miss You In Saint-saturnin
Dinner With Elizabeth
Elevens
For Jean Migrenne
For L. J., Leaving And Coming Back
From Orient Point
Going Away From The River
Going Back To The River
La Bougeotte
Languedocienne
The Last April Interval
Late August
Late August Letter
Le Travail Rajeunit
Les Serpillieres
Letter From Goose Creek: April
Literary Initiation C. 1960
Market Day
Nights Of 1962: The River Merchant's Wife
Nights Of 1964-1966: The Old Reliable
Riposte
Saturday Night Bile
Self
Separate Lives
Then
Torch
Two Cities
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Vintage; 2nd Printing edition (March 17, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679728651
• ISBN-13: 978-0679728658
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,969,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009) Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006)and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Emmanuel Moses' He and I (Oberlin College Press, 2009), Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata's Nettles (The Graywolf Press, 2008). She lives in New York and Paris andteaches at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the City College of New York. She is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets' Prize, the National Book Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.