from
CREPUSCULE WITH MURIEL:
The
dream-life logic encodes in nervous tics
she translated to a syntax which connects
intense and unfashionable politics
with morning coffee, Hudson sunsets, sex;
then the short-circuit of the final stroke,
the end toward which all lines looped out, then broke.
Marilyn
Hacker is the author of nine books. She lives in New York and Paris.
Hacker’s poems are extraordinarily structured, typically following the
sestina or villanelle form, usually rhymed, sometimes tossing in a
Pantoum or two. Hacker uses all types of rhymes in her poetry -- perfect
rhymes (such as mate, gate, late), off-rhymes that provide assonance
(shoot, tune, reputed), and off-rhymes that provide rich consonance
(shoot, mate).
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