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Obituary: Marianne Halley Chametzky; verse interwove pain, hope
Marianne Halley Chametzky, a feminist poet whose verse touched on the role of politics and history in shaping the human condition, died Monday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton from complications of multiple myeloma. She was 75.

Her lyrical poetry, which included three books of verse, and her essays were published under her maiden name, Anne Halley.

''What Anne tried to achieve in her poetry was a deeper understanding of the historical and current psychological effects of life in our times, coming out of the most terrible period in history," her husband, Jules Chametzky, a retired English professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said yesterday.

Her conclusion, he said, was a belief in ''the continuity of life and that something always remains, however meager, to go on." [...]

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