Praise for Marilyn Hacker "Like all great poets, [Marilyn Hacker] transcends the very material she collects and alters. Her true quest is for language that will realize the stranger, and, in doing so, unify the self." --Grace Schulman, Kenyon Review "[Marilyn] Hacker is a swashbuckling wielder of poetry's most challenging forms (she writes a ghazal with more fluency than most poets can manage a haiku)." --David Orr, New York Times Book Review "A poet who connects the dots between the body and the body politic, [Marilyn Hacker] is also that rarest of poetic animals, one who writes in meter and rhyme with a radical agenda. [She] channel[s] a fierce energy into a signature tone that is at once casual, intense, and brimming with wordplay." --Alicia Ostriker, Women's Review "[Marilyn] Hacker is, to use a trite term, a major poet. More than that she is exciting and true." --George Szirtes "A member of a feminist-poetry sisterhood, [Marilyn] Hacker is allied with Carolyn Forché as she bears witness; with Adrienne Rich as she shatters silences; and with Audre Lorde as she shows us the ravages of illness and the courage to confront it.

" --Ann van Buren, The Rumpus "Marilyn Hacker is one of our greatest poets, according to every critical sense by which we measure a poet's greatness." --Lawrence Joseph.