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Yusef Komunyakaa Reads Marilyn Hacker

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Yusef Komunyakaa delves into Marilyn Hacker's poem 'Names', emphasizing its evolving tone, the impact of its opening and closing lines, as well as the authoritative and tense atmosphere that develops in the sonnet.

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