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 ...

In this series of new poems Gail Mazur takes stock-of the complexity of relationships between parents and children, the desires of the body as well as its frailties, the distinctions between memory and history, and the hope of art to ...

At the heart of Gail Mazur's The Common is the refusal to simplify what is paradoxical in our world and a recognition of the tensions in our own divided nature.

“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 ...

Widely acclaimed for expanding the stylistic boundaries of both the narrative and meditative lyric, Gail Mazur’s poetry crackles with verbal invention as she confronts the inevitable upheavals of a lived life.

July Saturday Night -- The Self in Search of the Sublime -- The Bay -- Morning Letter -- Grief -- Notes