Land''s End - New and Selected Poems

"'Land's End' promises to be the crowning achievement of this master of the descriptive-meditative narrative poem. Here Gail Mazur powerfully evokes the past, while still writing from the firm ground of the present. In the book's title poem, a beautifully crafted elegy to poets who have passed on, Mazur also charges us with the responsibility of nurturing art and artists of the future, especially in the face of the absurdities of contemporary politics. Throughout the New Poems section, Mazur continues to write with the kind of lyric authority, emotional range, and intellectual and social scope that we have come to expect from her award-winning poetry, and this new and selected volume offers Mazur's very best poems from her seven previous books"--

About the author

Gail Mazur is the founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry series and the author of six previous books of poems, including They Can't Take That Away from Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Insitute of Radcliffe College as well as the St. Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award.

Product details

• Authors: Gail Mazur, Mazur Gail
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780226720739
• ISBN: 978-0-226-72073-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Phoenix Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / American / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems