Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. Her books of poetry include Going Back to the River (1990), Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Presentation Piece (1975), which won the National Book Award. 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each...

She was born in and raised in Bronx, New York, the only child of professional Jews. Both of her parents were chemists. A precocious child, Hacker attended the Bronx High School of Science and enrolled at New York University at the age of fifteen. In 1961, with one year left before graduation, Hacker married science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany. New York state law at the time forbid interracial marriage and the two took a Greyhound bus to Michigan where laws were more amenable. They settled in New York’s East Village. Their daughter, Iva Hacker-Delany, was born in 1974. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, or just Science, is a specialized New York City public high school located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, with no tuition charges and admission by exam. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Samuel Ray Chip Delany, Jr. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Miscegenation. ... Greyhound Lines is the largest intercity common carrier of passengers by bus in North America, serving 2200 destinations in the United States. ... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ... East Village Also known as Newmyers Seven Nuts, named for its inventor Chris Newmyer, East Village is a community card poker game. ...

Although she did marry and have children, Hacker has been predominantly a lesbian throughout her life. In 1961, Hacker married Samuel Delany, a high school friend and fellow bisexual. Both she and her husband had several consecutive same-sex relations outside their marriage. Legally separated for many years, Hacker and Delany were divorced in 1980 but remain close friends. A lesbian is a female who is exclusively emotionally, sexually, and romantically attracted to other females. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...

In the 60s and 70s Hacker worked mostly in commercial editing. She returned to NYU, edited the university literary magazine, publishing poems by Charles Simic and Grace Schulman, and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Romance languages. Charles Simic Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is an American poet. ...

Always a reader and supporter of literary magazines, her first publication was in Cornell University’s Epoch. After moving to London in 1970, she found an audience through the pages of The London Magazine and Ambit. Her greatest breakthrough came when Richard Howard, then editor of The New American Review, accepted three of Hacker's poems for publication. Cornell redirects here. ... Richard Howard is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. ... The American Review has been the name of more than one publication. ...

In 1973, when she was thirty-one, Presentation Piece was published by the Viking Press. The book, a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, also received a National Book Award. She continues to garner awards: Winter Numbers, which details the loss of manyof her friends to AIDS and her own struggle with breast cancer, garnered a Lambda Literary Award and The Nation’s Lenore Marshall Prize. Her Selected Poems received the 1996 Poets’ Prize. She received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She is the author of eleven books of poems, most recently Desesperanto, published by W. W. Norton in 2003. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...

Hacker is an important contemporary lesbian writer and activist, and often employs strict poetic forms in her poetry, as with Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, which is a verse novel in sonnets. She is also recognized as a master of "French forms," particularly the villanelle. A lesbian is a female who is exclusively emotionally, sexually, and romantically attracted to other females. ... Verse novels are a contemporary genre combining the power of narrative with the rich, evocative language of verse or poetry. ... Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers For the Saab automobile, see Saab Sonett, for the Japanese communications company see So-net. ... A villanelle (or occasionally villonelle) is a traditional poetic form which entered English-language poetry in the late 1800s from the imitation of French models. ...

Hacker lives in New York and Paris with her partner of ten years, physician assistant Karyn London, and teaches at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York (known more commonly as the CUNY Graduate Center or the GC) is the sole doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York. ...

Hacker is mentioned in Heavenly Breakfast, Delany's memoir of a New York City commune during the so-called Summer of Love in 1967. Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The Summer of Love is a phrase given to the summer of 1967 to try to describe the feeling of being in San Francisco that summer, when the so-called hippie movement came to full fruition. ...

Bibliography

Poetry

• Presentation Piece (1975)
• Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons (1986) ISBN 0393312259
• Going Back to the River (1990)
• Winter Numbers: Poems (1995) ISBN 0393313735
• Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 (2003) ISBN 0393054187

Translations

• Claire Malroux, Birds and Bison (2005) ISBN 1931357250

Anthologies

• (edited with Samuel R. Delany) Quark 1 (1970, science fiction)
• (edited with Samuel R. Delany) Quark 2 (1971, science fiction)
• (edited with Samuel R. Delany) Quark 3 (1971, science fiction)
• (edited with Samuel R. Delany) Quark 4 (1971, science fiction)

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External links

• Marilyn Hacker at www.poets.org
• www.geocities.com/presentationpiece