Figures in a Landscape |
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Author:
| Mazur, Gail |
Series title: | Phoenix Poets Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-226-51441-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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A new inclusiveness, a heady freedom, grounded in the facts of mortality, inform Gail Mazur's recent poems, as if making them has served as both a bunker and a promontory, a way to survive, and to be exposed to, the profound underlying subject of this book: a husband's approaching death. The intimate particulars of a shared life are seen from a great height--and then there's the underlife of the bunker: endurance, holding on, life as uncompromising reality. This new work, possessed...
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A new inclusiveness, a heady freedom, grounded in the facts of mortality, inform Gail Mazur's recent poems, as if making them has served as both a bunker and a promontory, a way to survive, and to be exposed to, the profound underlying subject of this book: a husband's approaching death. The intimate particulars of a shared life are seen from a great height--and then there's the underlife of the bunker: endurance, holding on, life as uncompromising reality. This new work, possessed by the unique devil-may-care intensity of someone writing at the end of her nerves, makes Figures in a Landscape feel radiant, visionary, and exhilarating, rather than elegiac. Mazur's masterly fusion of abstraction with the facts of a life creates a coming to terms with what Yeats called "the aboriginal ice."