Squares and Courtyards: Poems
A Poetry book. Sometimes the squares and courtyards are the parks and private property of New York and Paris. Then my...
Marilyn Hacker is one of America's best-known and beloved poets. Her well-wrought, formalist meditations on everyday life, history, illness, and womanhood -- among other topics -- have won her nearly every major poetry prize and a devoted readership the world over. Her new collection, Squares and Courtyards, opens with these lines: Is it the boy in me who's looking out the window, while someone across the street mends a pillowcase, clouds shift, the gutter spout pours rain, someone else lights a cigarette? This initial image -- a boy at a window, gazing outside at the nearby world -- says a lot about Hacker's particular poetic gift. She's like the child in this poem, gazing out and consolidating what she sees into brief lyrical utterances. And indeed, this very window-gazing image recurs in the collection's title poem, in an italicized coda that sums up Hacker's poetic project even more succinctly: Not knowing what to thank or whom to bless, the schoolgirl at the window,...
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- Pages: 112 pages
- ISBN: 9780393320954 / 393320952
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Sometimes the squares and courtyards are the parks and private property of New York and Paris. Then my attention wanders.Sometimes the squares and courtyards are the empty spaces left behind when a person who is loved dies. Frames for an absence. Then I listen. Hacker is an incredible poet about death. Even when she's desperately trying... read I saw this book at a park in Beverly for 5 dollars, and automatically picked it up to buy it. A local bookstore was having a book sale in the park, and there were books and books and books spread all over half a dozen tables. I bought 5 books that day, and this book was one of them.Marilyn Hacker is a National Book Award winning poet...
