Books like Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker

A classic poem about Santa Claus coming to life on Christmas Eve.

A facsimile edition of Sylvia Plath’s posthumous collection *Ariel*, presenting the poems in the exact order and selection she left at her death, with manuscript pages and working drafts of the title poem.

A young woman's exploration of relationships, life, and music, exploring the complexities of rock-n-roll, rock stars, and the meaning of love and loss as a contemporary woman in a rock band finds her way through the treacherous paths of relationships and self-discovery in the wake of her relationship with Mick Jagger, as depicted in her poetry and music inspired by W.B. Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming,’ 'The Lake Isle of Wight,' and ‘The Seaweb.'

A bold exploration of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression through verse, prose, and dialogue.

An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.

Marilyn Hacker's Selected Poems: A Poetic Legacy from Feminism to Maturation

Anjail Rashida Ahmad's powerful exploration of African American women's heritage and pride in language and tradition.

**One of our strongest poets of conscience confronts the dangerous new century with intelligence, urbanity, and elegiac humor.** 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.