Marilyn Hacker
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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. With...