Land's End: New and Selected Poems
“This comprehensive volume . . . demonstrates a remarkable mastery of poetic technique [with] poems as poignant as they are accomplished in their craft.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

In Land’s End, Gail Mazur writes with the kind of lyric authority, emotional range, and broad intellectual and social scope that her readers have come to expect. Beautifully crafted elegies meet with reflections on her own life, her family, and artists who have come and gone. In the title poem, she leads readers through a garden, where new and old growth twists together in an “almanac of inheritances” that conjures the rich memory of poets who have passed on. In this space of remembrance, Mazur also charges us with the responsibility of nurturing art and artists of the future, especially in the face of the disheartening absurdities of contemporary politics.

Through tidal creeks and the weightless scenes of ukiyo-e woodcuts, in artists’ studios and along the frozen Charles River, Mazur connects passionately with the world around her. Carrying with her the undeniable presence of loss and of time past, she engages deeply with the present, her historic memory informing a deep concern for contemporary life.
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Land's End: New and Selected Poems
“This comprehensive volume . . . demonstrates a remarkable mastery of poetic technique [with] poems as poignant as they are accomplished in their craft.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

In Land’s End, Gail Mazur writes with the kind of lyric authority, emotional range, and broad intellectual and social scope that her readers have come to expect. Beautifully crafted elegies meet with reflections on her own life, her family, and artists who have come and gone. In the title poem, she leads readers through a garden, where new and old growth twists together in an “almanac of inheritances” that conjures the rich memory of poets who have passed on. In this space of remembrance, Mazur also charges us with the responsibility of nurturing art and artists of the future, especially in the face of the disheartening absurdities of contemporary politics.

Through tidal creeks and the weightless scenes of ukiyo-e woodcuts, in artists’ studios and along the frozen Charles River, Mazur connects passionately with the world around her. Carrying with her the undeniable presence of loss and of time past, she engages deeply with the present, her historic memory informing a deep concern for contemporary life.
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Land's End: New and Selected Poems

Land's End: New and Selected Poems

by Gail Mazur
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“This comprehensive volume . . . demonstrates a remarkable mastery of poetic technique [with] poems as poignant as they are accomplished in their craft.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

In Land’s End, Gail Mazur writes with the kind of lyric authority, emotional range, and broad intellectual and social scope that her readers have come to expect. Beautifully crafted elegies meet with reflections on her own life, her family, and artists who have come and gone. In the title poem, she leads readers through a garden, where new and old growth twists together in an “almanac of inheritances” that conjures the rich memory of poets who have passed on. In this space of remembrance, Mazur also charges us with the responsibility of nurturing art and artists of the future, especially in the face of the disheartening absurdities of contemporary politics.

Through tidal creeks and the weightless scenes of ukiyo-e woodcuts, in artists’ studios and along the frozen Charles River, Mazur connects passionately with the world around her. Carrying with her the undeniable presence of loss and of time past, she engages deeply with the present, her historic memory informing a deep concern for contemporary life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226720876
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/22/2022
Series: Phoenix Poets
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 223
Sales rank: 936,761
File size: 857 KB

About the Author

Gail Mazur is the founder of the Blacksmith House poetry reading series, one of the oldest continuous series in the country. She has taught widely, including the graduate writing programs of Boston University, Emerson College, and the University of Houston. She has received numerous grants and awards and is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently, Forbidden City.
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
New Poems Hall Mirror
At 4 A.M.
That Was Then
My American Poem
At Land’s End
Walking Barefoot, August
Thoreauvian
The Conversation
Nostalgia
End of Summer
Eastham Turnips, November
Rest Stop
The Breakwater
*
Josef Albers
The High Line
Snapshots
There Came a Time
Blue Work Shirt
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Early Morning Walks
More, More
  from Forbidden City (2016) Mount Fuji
Forbidden City
My Studio
Believe That Even in My Deliberateness I Was Not Deliberate
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Shade
Age
On Jane Cooper’s “The Green Notebook”
Philip Guston
The 70s
Elephant Memory
To the Charles River
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We Swam to an Island of Bees
Instance of Me
The Self in Search of the Sublime
Things
Family Crucible
Grief
from Figures in a Landscape (2011) Figures in a Landscape
Hermit
The Age
Poem
Shipwreck
To the Makers
Borges in Cambridge, 1967
To the Women of My Family
History of My Timidity
Dear Migraine,
Isaac Rosenberg
Inward Conversation
Post-Pastoral
Concordance to a Life’s Work
from Zeppo’s First Wife (2005) Blue Umbrella
The Mission
September
Queenie
Dana Street, December
Zeppo’s First Wife
Seven Sons
Waterlilies
American Ghazal
Rudy’s Tree
from They Can’t Take That Away from Me (2001) Five Poems Entitled “Questions”
Michelangelo: to Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel
Poems
Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
Young Apple Tree, December
I Wish   I Want   I Need
The Weskit
Evening
Girl in a Library
Air Drawing
from The Common (1995) I’m a Stranger Here Myself
In Houston
Whatever They Want
Bluebonnets
Poem for Christian, My Student
Foliage
Ice
Poem Ending with Three Lines of Wordsworth’s
Bedroom at Arles
from The Pose of Happiness (1986) The Horizontal Man
Jewelweed
Reading Akhmatova
Hurricane Watch
Fallen Angels
Listening to Baseball in the Car
To RTSL, 1985
from Nightfire (1978) Baseball
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