Marilyn Hacker Quotes

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

- Marilyn Hacker

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Individual | Poems | Lyric | Descriptive | Narrative |

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