I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. Marilyn Hacker addictbookbookshop 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
'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 affairamountarc 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 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
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
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. Marilyn Hacker communitymeanpeople Change image and share on social