This is a gathering of
13 Poetry (Chicago) complete issues (1973-2001) with contributions by and about award-winning poet
Marilyn Hacker. Also included here are
two more recent contributions, to
The New Yorker and to
The Kenyon Review.
15 in total. All issues are complete and in very good condition. Many of them, at this date, are now hard to find.
The Poetry (Chicago) issues include:
July 1973. The editor notes that Hacker's first book will be published later in the year and she offers a new poem here, An Alexandrite Pendant for My Mother.
October 1973. Hacker, recently awarded the Lamont Prize for her first book (which would later be awarded the National Book Award) contributes an early poem to the monthly, Under the Arc de Triomphe: October 17.
April 1975. The able poet and critic Ben Howard reviews Hacker's first book, Presentation Piece.
February 1977. Robert Holland reviews Hacker's second book, Separations.
May 1978. Hacker pens a new poem, Lines Declining a Transatlantic Dinner Invitation.
December 1978. Hacker contributes Third Snowfall.
June 1980. Hacker offers two new poems for this number of the monthly, Burnham Beeches and A Man with Sons.
July 1981. Hacker contributes a new poem, Gerda in the Eyrie and poet J.D. McClatchy reviews Hacker's new volume of verse, published by Knopf, Taking Notice.
February 1983. Hacker contributes A Chaplet for Judith Landry.
April 1984. Hacker opens this number with three poems: April Interval I, April Interval III, April Interval IV.
December 1985. Sandra M. Gilbert reviews Hacker's new book, Assumptions.
July 1991. Stephen Yenser reviews Hacker's Going Back to the River (Random House).
November 2001. Hacker contributes a new poem, Desesperanto. This number also announces that Hacker had won the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for her translations from the French in a Poetry Special French issue in 2000.
WITH
The New Yorker for 22 September 2008. Hacker contributes a new poem to the weekly, Names.
AND
The Kenyon Review for July/August 2017. Hacker offer a new longer poem here: Calligraphies III.