Results for "Mazur, Gail"

With her latest poetry collection, Gail Mazur once again shows her mastery of the descriptive-meditative narrative, powerfully evoking the past while writing from the firm ground of the present. In Land’s End, we see Mazur writing with the kind of lyric authority, ever-deepening emotional range, and... Read More about Land's End: New and Selected Poems (Phoenix Poets)

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 intimat... Read More about Figures in a Landscape (Phoenix Poets)

from “Mount Fuji” A draughtsman’s draughtsman, Hokusai at 70 thought he’d begun to grasp the structures   of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way plants grow, hoped that by 90 he’d havepenetrated to their essential nature.   And more, by 100, I will have reached the stagewhere ev... Read More about Forbidden City (Phoenix Poets)

from Enormously Sad. . . Sad, so sad-compared to what?To your earlier more oblivious state?It never was oblivious enough-always those presentiments of sadnessprickling the limbic. Now a voice says, Get outsideyourself, go walk on the flats. The tide's gone out—but your little metal detector will det... Read More about Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems (Phoenix Poets)

At the heart of Gail Mazur's The Common is the refusal to simplify what is paradoxical in our world and a recognition of the tensions in our own divided nature. These unflinching poems create a place where wisdom and foolishness, fear and courage, rage and pity, love and diffidence, naturally co-exi... Read More about The Common (Phoenix Poets)

At the heart of Gail Mazur's The Common is the refusal to simplify what is paradoxical in our world and a recognition of the tensions in our own divided nature. These unflinching poems create a place where wisdom and foolishness, fear and courage, rage and pity, love and diffidence, naturally co-exi... Read More about The Common (Phoenix Poets)