Figures in a Landscape
- ISBN-10
- 0226514412
- ISBN-13
- 9780226514413
- Series
- Figures in a Landscape
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 79
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-15
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Gail Mazur
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.”
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