Marilyn Hacker Redefines Mother, Woman, and Daughter in Selected Poems

Marilyn Hacker Redefines Mother, Wo human race, and girlfriend in Selected Poems 1965-1990Marilyn Hacker. What does she mean? What does she mean? I check with Thrall, Hibbard, and Holman who define metrical composition to be a term applied to the many forms in which man has given a rhythmic expression to his most imaginative and acute perceptions of his world, himself, and the interrelationship of the two (364). I forge ahead through hundreds of pages of poetry. Images and impressions ar beginning to form in my mind. Finally, Hacker, you provide a clue with mite and Form where you compare your poetry to Cezannes apples I do interchangeable words,which is wherefore I make things out of wordsand listen to their hints, resounding likeskipping stones radiating circles, draw-ing context from text, the way Ive watched you draw a pepper mover and shaker on a table, drawit again, once more, until it isnt likeanything but your estimate of a draw-ing, like an idea of movement, draw-in g its shape from sequence.(85-86) The words syllabus indicates that this course investigates mother as a cul...