LEADER 03930nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910792592903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-58487-1 010 $a9786612584879 010 $a0-226-51450-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226514505 035 $a(CKB)2670000000019449 035 $a(EBL)534589 035 $a(OCoLC)635292291 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431613 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264483 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431613 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10476046 035 $a(PQKB)11202030 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC534589 035 $a(DE-B1597)524766 035 $a(OCoLC)1135588885 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226514505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL534589 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389551 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL258487 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000019449 100 $a20050121d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aZeppo's first wife$b[electronic resource] $enew and selected poems /$fGail Mazur 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 1 $aPhoenix poets 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-51447-1 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNew Poems -- $tThey Can't Take That Away from Me (2001) -- $tThe Common (1995) -- $tFrom The Pose of Happiness (1986) -- $tFrom NIGHTFIRE (1978) 330 $afrom Enormously Sad . . . Sad, so sad-compared to what? To your earlier more oblivious state? It never was oblivious enough- always those presentiments of sadness prickling the limbic. Now a voice says, Get outside yourself, go walk on the flats. The tide's gone out- but your little metal detector will detect little metallic coins of enormous sadness in the teeming wet sand, and then, the tide will come back, erasing, cleansing! And you, standing there in the salty scouring air- will you still be enormously sad, While the other world, outside your tiny purview, struck by iron, reels? World of intentional iron, pure savage organized iron of the world, it hasn't the time that you have for your puny enormous sadness. Widely acclaimed for expanding the stylistic boundaries of both the narrative and meditative lyric, Gail Mazur's poetry crackles with verbal invention as she confronts the inevitable upheavals of a lived life. Zeppo's First Wife, which includes excerpts from Mazur's four previous books, as well as twenty-two new poems, is epitomized by the worldly longing of the title poem, with its searching poignancy and comic bravura. Mazur's explorations of "this fallen world, this loony world" are deeply moving acts of empathy by a singular moral sensibility-evident from the earliest poem included here, the much-anthologized "Baseball," a stunning bird's-eye view of human foibles and passions. Clear-eyed, full of paradoxical griefs and appetites, her poems brave the most urgent subjects-from the fraught luscious Eden of the ballpark, to the fragility of our closest human ties, to the implications for America in a world where power and war are cataclysmic for the strong as well as the weak. 410 0$aPhoenix poets. 606 $aAmerican poetry 610 $apoetry, collection, gender, women, longing, modern life, ballpark, baseball, america, creative writing, emotion, affect, sadness, despair, melancholy, fallen world, eden, religious allusion, passion, frailty, empathy, morality, grief, appetites, desire, power, war, strength, weakness, vice, fragility, failure, humanity, poetics, anthology. 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aMazur$b Gail$01500178 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792592903321 996 $aZeppo's first wife$93726742 997 $aUNINA