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 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 closedrafteveryday 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
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. Marilyn Hacker anglophonebelongcity Change image and share on social
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. Marilyn Hacker americancreativeculture 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
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. Marilyn Hacker couragejournalprevious Change image and share on social
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. Marilyn Hacker amountattentionoblige Change image and share on social
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
