Forbidden City
72 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
One
Forbidden City
Mount Fuji
Late at Night
My Studio
Believe That Even in My Deliberateness I Was Not Deliberate
Sintra
Inventory
At Dusk, in the Yard
We Swam to an Island of Bees
Ou Sont Les Neiges D’Antan
Two
Philip Guston
On Jane Cooper’s “The Green Notebook”
Shade
Three
Instance of Me
Doorknobs
Things
Genealogy
Art History
The 70s
Age
Living Treasure
Unveiling
Family Crucible
Perennial
Four
Night
Minnesota
Ur-Dream
Elephant Memory
To the Charles River
Amarin
July Saturday Night
The Self in Search of the Sublime
The Bay
Morning Letter
Grief
Notes
One
Forbidden City
Mount Fuji
Late at Night
My Studio
Believe That Even in My Deliberateness I Was Not Deliberate
Sintra
Inventory
At Dusk, in the Yard
We Swam to an Island of Bees
Ou Sont Les Neiges D’Antan
Two
Philip Guston
On Jane Cooper’s “The Green Notebook”
Shade
Three
Instance of Me
Doorknobs
Things
Genealogy
Art History
The 70s
Age
Living Treasure
Unveiling
Family Crucible
Perennial
Four
Night
Minnesota
Ur-Dream
Elephant Memory
To the Charles River
Amarin
July Saturday Night
The Self in Search of the Sublime
The Bay
Morning Letter
Grief
Notes
Review Quotes
Hyperallergic
“Powerful. . . . Mazur’s poems register the constant tug between holding on and letting go that is an inescapable condition of her life: she is always bumping up against a glimmer from the past or the future, even as she goes through each day.”
On the Seawall
“Mazur examines her response to desolation with unsparing meticulousness. The results are poems that expand our understanding of the consolation of nature, the miracles of art, and the power of imagination. . . . In its passion and invention, line by line, Forbidden City reveals Gail Mazur as an artist writing at the height of her powers.”
David Rivard
“No one—and I mean no one—writes poems as chock full of such nuanced feeling as Gail Mazur. She is as good as it gets. Has the elegiac ever seemed so vibrant and full of breathing space as it does here? The poems in Forbidden City run light and true under hard losses. They are heroic in the best possible way, fully open to sorrow and fear but keeping their wits about them at all times. I love them, and envy their generous powers.”
Harvard Review Online
“With courageous disinterestedness, Mazur turns private particulars into universal images with a light poetic touch. We feel what she feels in the most ordinary objects and images that shine as human touchstones for our common longings and laments."
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