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Marilyn Hacker
Portrait of Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the author of fourteen books of poems, including Blazons (Carcanet Press, 2019), A Stranger’s Mirror (W. W. Norton, 2015), and Diaspo/Renga, written with Deema K. Shehabi (Holland Park Press, 2014), and an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices (University of Michigan Press, 2010). Her eighteen translations of French and Francophone poets include Samira Negrouche’s The Olive Trees’ Jazz (Pleiades Press, 2020) and Claire Malroux’s Daybreak (New York Review Books, 2020). A Different Distance, a collaboration with Karthika Naïr, will be published by Milkweed Editions this December. (updated 10/2021)

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Ghazal: takhulus
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Poetry
Street Scenes: Sunday Evening
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Poetry
Twelfth Floor West
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AGNI has published the following translations:

Poetry
A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know
by Golan Haji
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Hacker
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Poetry
from Bach in Autumn
by Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
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Poetry
Trees of Flame
by Claire Malroux
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
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Poetry
To Aras Bengo
by Golan Haji
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Hacker
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Poetry
To Mohammed Samy al-Kayâlli
by Golan Haji
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Hacker
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Poetry
To Raed Naqshabandi
by Golan Haji
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Hacker
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Poetry
To Ruwa Riché
by Golan Haji
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Hacker
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Poetry
Blue Gold
by Guy Goffette
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Poetry
The Veil of Ether
by Guy Goffette
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Poetry
Knothead
by Hédi Kaddour
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Poetry
Precepts
by Claire Malroux
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
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