Figures in a Landscape Contributor(s): Mazur, Gail (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226514412 ISBN-13: 9780226514413 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2010028026 |
Series: Phoenix Poets |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Mazur, Gail: - Gail Mazur is the founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry series and the author of six previous books of poems, including They Can't Take That Away from Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Insitute of Radcliffe College as well as the St. Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award. |