Names

"Through a dozen books, Marilyn Hacker's poems have explored the rawness of human experience made significant because of its engagement with language, In Names, Hacker develops a dialogue between signal poetic voices - Anna Akhmatova, Mahmoud Darwish, Hayden Carruth - and contemporary writers, creating through intricate word play and forms both traditional and invented a startlingly rich, authentic tapestry of lives linked by desire and loss, passion and despair"--