primeideal

So sometimes when I'm browsing at the library I actually do pick up things that are not for bingo (not always, but sometimes!) Found a slim volume of poetry that had sonnet cycles and rhymed ghazals, very cool constraints. Checked it out. Some of the themes are repetitive (how early it gets dark, food flavors, the grief of exile), but still, very impressive rhymes/slant rhymes/playfulness with language, I'm a fan. Search to see if the author has written anything else.

...She's Marilyn Hacker, who was married to Samuel Delany before they both came out as gay and remained friends, and she wrote the in-universe poetry for Babel-17. Small galaxy!