Marilyn Hacker

Squares and Courtyards

"[Poems] of intense intimacy, beauty, and authority." —W. S. Merwin

Moving back and forth with the rhythm of the writer’s life, from Paris to New York, from the 1990s to the 1940s, Squares and Courtyards reminds us that, to take action, it is necessary to take notice.

"Marilyn Hacker is an essential American poet."—Eavan Boland

"This is a beautiful book."—Henry Taylor