Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Quote of the Day (Marilyn Hacker, on Why We Should ‘Be Mindful of Names’)


“Be mindful of names. They’ll etch themselves
like daily specials on the window glass
in a delible medium. They’ll pass
transformed, erased, a cloud the wind dissolves
above the ruckus of the under-twelves
on the slide, the toddlers on the grass,
the ragged skinny guy taking a piss
in the bushes, a matron tanning her calves
on a bench, skirt tucked around her knees.”—American poet, translator and critic Marilyn Hacker, “Names,” in The New Yorker, Sept. 22, 2008

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