Figures in a Landscape (Phoenix Poets)

ISBN: 0226514412

Author: Mazur, Gail

Condition: New

A new inclusiveness, a heady freedom, grounded in the facts of mortality, inform Gail Mazurs 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 husbands approaching death. The intimate particulars of a shared life are seen from a great height-and then theres 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. Mazurs masterly fusion of abstraction with the facts of a life creates a coming to terms with what Yeats called the aboriginal ice.