Figures in a Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780226514413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 79 str.

Gail Mazur

Opis

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. "