I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way. — Marilyn Hacker
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. — Marilyn Hacker
Paris is a wonderful city. I can’t say I belong to an especially anglophone community. — Marilyn Hacker
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that — Marilyn Hacker
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. — Marilyn Hacker