Marilyn Hacker - April 14, 2016

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Marilyn Hacker

Poet and translator Marilyn Hacker reads from her collections Names (2010) and A Stranger's Mirror (2015). She also reads from her translations from the French of works by poets Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Claire Malroux.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Mary Wildner-Bassett

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Opening Remarks and "Pantoum," for Fadwa Soleiman
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Pomegranate"
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Hacker, Marilyn. Names. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010.

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"Alcaics for a Wedding"
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Ghazal: Outside the Door"
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Headaches"
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"In those days I know now words declaimed the wind..."
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From "Words." Differs from published version. 

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Khoury-Ghata, Vénus. She Says. Trans. Marilyn Hacker. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2003. 

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"Where do words come from?"
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From "Words."

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Khoury-Ghata, Vénus. She Says. Trans. Marilyn Hacker. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2003. 

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"Words, she says, used to be wolves"
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From "Words." Differs slightly from published version.

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Khoury-Ghata, Vénus. She Says. Trans. Marilyn Hacker. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2003. 

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"Storm" and "Glose: Storm"
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Malroux, Claire. Birds and Bison. Trans. Marilyn Hacker. Riverdale-On-Hudson, New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 2004. 

Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Omelette"
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Ghazal: The Beloved"
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Hacker, Marilyn. Names. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010.

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"Luzumiät: Necessities of what was unnecessary"
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Differs from published version. 

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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Fadwa: The Education of the Poet"
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Dahlia and Fadwa"
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Pantoum in Wartime"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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Question and Answer Session
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Marilyn Hacker
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Hannah Ensor
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Marilyn Hacker
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Hannah Ensor
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