Ghazal: takhulus

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)