It is hard to restrict myself to only five poets who changed my way of looking at the world, and...
Author Marilyn Hacker
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Marilyn Hacker is the author of 13 books of poetry, including Names (Norton 2009) and Desesperanto (Norton 2003). Maxine Kumin says of Hacker’s Winter Numbers, "This stunning book critiques our life and times—AIDS, the Holocaust, breast cancer, civil wars—with an unparalleled lyric candor. The tone is elegiac; the thrust is life-affirming." http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/92
