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 ambiguityconnotationfascinate Change image and share on social
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. Marilyn Hacker chargeeroticallyfree Change image and share on social
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 feedfindhave Change image and share on social
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. Marilyn Hacker commercialeditjob Change image and share on social
What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English. Marilyn Hacker englishiambicmetric Change image and share on social
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 chairdiscoveryeasy share on social
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker createinterestkind Change image and share on social
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. Marilyn Hacker brillianteccentricpoet Change image and share on social
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. Marilyn Hacker closelyequallyinvestment Change image and share on social
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Marilyn Hacker bookpoemthink Change image and share on social