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Figures in a Landscape
Gail Mazur
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Description for Figures in a Landscape
Paperback. Now, from the sweet fragrance of roses, bitterness stings our nostrils. The bay's withdrawn from us, the beach is littered with broken things - splintered oars, bits of old clay pipe from a long ago shipwreck, fragments of china plates. Enchanting, those days my townspeople scavenged rare cargo, furnishing their long winters with random wares. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 79 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
'Late September': Now, from the sweet fragrance of roses, bitterness stings our nostrils. The bay's withdrawn from us, the beach is littered with broken things - splintered oars, bits of old clay pipe from a long ago shipwreck, fragments of china plates. Enchanting, those days my townspeople scavenged rare cargo, furnishing their long winters with random wares. Now, the wind from two directions turns soft dubious summer to a hard estate. Now, when we know death is near, we walk with more courage, but slowly, alongside cavorting dogs. And soon he and I will wade together into the cold homecoming ... Read more
'Late September': Now, from the sweet fragrance of roses, bitterness stings our nostrils. The bay's withdrawn from us, the beach is littered with broken things - splintered oars, bits of old clay pipe from a long ago shipwreck, fragments of china plates. Enchanting, those days my townspeople scavenged rare cargo, furnishing their long winters with random wares. Now, the wind from two directions turns soft dubious summer to a hard estate. Now, when we know death is near, we walk with more courage, but slowly, alongside cavorting dogs. And soon he and I will wade together into the cold homecoming ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
Series
Phoenix Poets
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226514413
SKU
V9780226514413
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About Gail Mazur
Gail Mazur is the author of five books of poetry, most recently of Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems and They Can't Take That Away from Me, a finalist for the National Book Award, both published by the University of Chicago Press. She is founder and director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches in ... Read more
Reviews for Figures in a Landscape
"In their subjectivity, the poems appeal to each reader's personality, as well as to his or her aesthetic expectations. Mazur's careful use of natural speech turns personal remembrances into crafted parables.... Extraordinary language is required in order to honor, accurately and lovingly, the ordinary - a notion already embodied in much of Gail Mazur's poetry." (Alexandra Yurkovsky, San Francisco Chronicle)" ... Read more