Figures in a Landscape
, by Mazur, GailNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780226514413 | 0226514412
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/15/2011
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 heightand 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, makesFigures in a Landscapefeel 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."