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Synopsis
The poems in Samuel Hazos Sexes: The Marriage Dialogues are concerned with how husbands and wives confront each other at lifes various intersections—sometimes casually, sometimes profoundly. It is at these points that the most interesting differences in gender reveal themselves. F
About the Author
SAMUEL HAZO is the author of books of poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, and the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh. He is the translator of Adoniss The Pages of Day and Night (Marlboro Press, 2000). His book of poems Just Once: New and Selected Poems received the Maurice English Poetry Award in 2003. His latest books are The Stroke of the Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations (2011) and a novel, The Time Remaining (2012). A National Book Award finalist, he was chosen the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1993, and he served until 2003.