Figures in a Landscape |
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| Author:
| Mazur, Gail |
| Series title: | Phoenix Poets Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-283-09762-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
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 by...
More DescriptionA 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. "