I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I’ve had the same address and phone number since then. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
Community means people spending time together here, and I don’t think there’s really that. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
I’ve been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You’re sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you’ve read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons’ is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair – and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The ‘Sancerre’ poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I’m teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I’ve found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
I don’t know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it’s there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
There is always an element of play in form, however ‘serious’ the expression. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
