Forbidden City

Resumen del libro

Gail Mazurs poems in Forbidden City build an engaging meditative structure upon the elements of mortality and art, eloquently contemplating the relationship of art and life'and the dynamic possibilities of each in combination. At the collections heart is the poets long marriage to the artist Michael Mazur (1935-2009). A fascinating range of tone infuses the book'grieving, but clear-eyed rather than lugubrious, sometimes whimsical, even comical, and often exuberant. The note of pleasure, as in an old tradition enriched by transience, runs through the work, even in the final poem, 'Grief,' where 'our ravenous hold on the world' is a powerful central element.