| Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 Contributor(s): Hacker, Marilyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393326306 ISBN-13: 9780393326307 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: "DESESPERANTO refines the themes of loss, exile, and return that have informed her work, interweaving them into ordinary life with wit and brio. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2002154390 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.4" W x 8.34" (0.41 lbs) 124 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marilyn Hacker's voice is unique in its intelligence, urbanity, its deployment of an elegiac humor, its weaving of literary sources into the fabric and vocabulary of ordinary life, its archaeology of memory. Desesperanto refines the themes of loss, exile, and return that have consistently informed her work. The title itself is a wordplay combining the Spanish word esperanto, signifying hope, and the French desespoir, meaning to lose heart. Des-esperanto, then, is a universal language of despair --despair of the possibility of a universal language. As always in Hacker's poetry, prosodic measure is a catalyst for profound feeling and accurate thought, and she employs it with a wit and brio that at once stem from and counteract despair. Guillaume Apollinaire, June Jordan, and Joseph Roth are among this book's tutelary spirits, to whom the poet pays homage as she confronts a new, dangerous century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hacker, Marilyn: - Marilyn Hacker is the recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her collection Winter Numbers received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Paris, France. |