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Marilyn Hacker was born in New York in 1942. She is the author of many collections of poetry, including Presentation Piece (Viking Press, 1974), which won the National Book Award; Selected Poems: 1965-1990 (W. W. Norton, 1994), which received the Poets’ Prize; and Winter Numbers (W. W. Norton, reprinted 1996), which was awarded both the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Her collection Desesperanto: poems 1999-2003 was published in 2003. She is the translator of Claire Malroux’s collections of poems, Edge (Wake Forest University Press, 1996) and A Long Gone Sun (Sheep Meadow Press, 2000), and lives in New York City and Paris.

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