"With
her fluid yet colloquial line, and her gift of observation,
Mazur depicts the mind in all its reflective, reflexive operations.
Her poems show how it feels to think, enacting a process of
finding and affirming one's own ‘bewildering part in this
world.'...[Her poetry] is tough, smart, passionate, and deeply
humane."
— Joyce Peseroff, Provincetown Arts
“Colloquial
as well as eloquent, pitch-perfect no matter how delicate her
material, Gail Mazur has found a way to write that is completely
responsive to her remarkable qualities of mind. She gives us
the exact ‘feel’ of contemporary life in our disquieting
republic, the uncanny way in which love, hope, and endurance
are shot through by contingency, dread, and estrangement. Full
of warmth, humor, and a dry-eyed toughness, her work is a superb
personal and civic achievement.”
-National Book Award Judges’ Citation
"[Mazur
writes] tough, canny, dangerous poems, full of heart. [She]
is a poet not of epiphany or nostalgia but of the telling commonplaces
of lives, the odd juncture of greif and desire."
-Don Colburn, The Boston Review