Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt is the poetry editor of LIBER and a columnist for The Nation. Her books include the memoir Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories, The Mind-Body Problem: Poems, and Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights.

Poetry Comment

I’ve been reading and loving Marilyn Hacker’s poetry ever since her first book, Presentation Piece (1974), which means just about my entire adult life. I can’t think of another poet who combines so many opposites: she’s a swashbuckling formalist, a love poet who’s obsessed with politics, a Francophile (she’s lived

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