Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names, and has translated twelve collections of poetry from the French, most recently Rachida Madani’s Tales of a Severed Head.
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Poetry | Issue 125
Opening Invocation
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
‘Or otherwise, leaving the shore of the intermediate sea, / has it been a while since they’ve gone ahead / into the interior of lands of the spirit?’
Poetry | Issue 125
In the village of the mothers
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
‘The wells are kept for the use of the dead who splash the / walls with their silence.’
