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Transitions is her first volume consisting entirely of the beloved form.  Hacker is a poet of quiet mastery. In her hands, the sonnet, despite the stricture of meter and rhyme, blooms into a living, breathing thing, one that’s contemporary, confessional, and subversive. Sentences effortlessly fall into formal constraint, and words that evoke the pleasure of everyday language become Petrarchan rhymes. As Jan Heller Levi wrote, “No one writes about lust and lunch like Marilyn Hacker. And certainly no one has done more to demonstrate that form has nothing to do with formula.”  From her early sonnets to those written decades later, this book offers a portrait of the seasons of an extraordinary life, a life lived between New York, Paris, and Beirut as an activist, a polyglot, and a queer woman. 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Peace with justice: the cause of the beloved.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52735215829265,"sku":"NIN9780393339673","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53152745128209,"sku":"CIN039333967XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780393339673.jpg?v=1763400141"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-marilyn-hacker.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}