Desesperanto
Subtitle: Poems, 1999-2002
By: Marilyn Hacker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton
Published: May 2003
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780393054187
Description: "Deseperanto refines the themes of loss, exile, and return that have consistently informed her work. The title itself is a wordplay combining the Spanish word "esperanto," signifying "hope," and the French "desespoir," meaning "to lose heart." Desesperanto, then, is a universal language of despair--despair of the possibility of a universal language"--Dustjacket.