| Author/Contributor(s): | Hacker, Marilyn |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Date: | 04/04/2023 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Moving from Paris to Beirut and back, Calligraphies is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming connection in everyday moments--a lunch of "standing near the fridge with / labneh, two verbs, and a spoon"--as a counterweight to the precarity of existence. In a variety of tones and formal registers, from vivid crowns of sonnets to insistent ghazals to riffs on the renga, Calligraphies explores a world opened up by language.
From "Listen"I write stories, but the language hasn't claimed me,
And it won't, until I learn to listen.