Zeppo’s First Wife
New and Selected Poems
264 pages
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6 1/8 x 8 1/2
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© 2005
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
New Poems
Enormously Sad
Blue Umbrella
American Ghazal
Acadia
At First, They
Queenie
Dana Street, December
The Swamp Trail
Now:
The Mission
Cape Air
Cemetery Road
Night Visitation
September
Black Ducks
A Small Door
To Whoever May Be Concerned:
Rudy’s Tree
To X
Seven Sons
Waterlilies
Zeppo’s First Wife
They Can’t Take That Away From Me (2001)
Five Poems Entitled "Questions"
Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
Not Crying
Evening
I Wish I Want I Need
Young Apple Tree, December
The Weskit
Penumbra
Last Night
My Dream After Mother Breaks Her Hip
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Hypnosis
At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
Girl in a Library
Twenty Lines before Breakfast
Wakeful before Tests
Shangri-la
Two Bedrooms
Poems
Michelangelo: To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel
Air Drawing
Leah’s Dream
Then
Right Now
Keep Going
The Beach
Low Tide
To Begin This Way Every Day
Three Provincetown Mornings
Insomnia at Daybreak
The Common (1995)
Two Worlds: A Bridge
The Acorn
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Mensch in the Morning
In Houston
Whatever They Want
Desire
Bedroom at Arles
Poem for Christian, My Student
May, Home after a Year Away
Bluebonnets
Fracture Santa Monica
The Idea of Florida during a Winter Thaw
Snake in the Grass
Blue
Why You Travel
After the Storm, August
A Green Watering Can
Maternal
Ware’s Cove
Ice
Traces
Phonic
Pennies from Heaven
Another Tree
Revenant
Yahrzeit
Family Plot
Foliage
The Common
At Boston Garden, the First Night of War, 1991
Poem Ending with Three Lines of Wordsworth’s
Lilacs on Brattle Street
A Small Plane from Boston to Montpelier
From The Pose of Happiness (1986)
Mashpee, 1979
Mashpee, 1952
After the Fire
Ruins
Mashpee Wine
Reading Akhmatova
Next Door
Fallen Angels
In the Dark Our Story
In the Garment District
A Deck of Cards
Teeth
Being Sick
Elementary Education
The Horizontal Man
Jewelweed
Pears
Early Winter
Anomie
Norumbega Park
Daylight
Hurricane Watch
Dog Days, Sweet Everlasting
Longfellow Park, August
Dutch Tulips
Listening to Baseball in the Car
Two Months in the Country
Graves
Afterward
To RTSL, 1985
Spring Planting
From Nightfire (1978)
Baseball
New Poems
Enormously Sad
Blue Umbrella
American Ghazal
Acadia
At First, They
Queenie
Dana Street, December
The Swamp Trail
Now:
The Mission
Cape Air
Cemetery Road
Night Visitation
September
Black Ducks
A Small Door
To Whoever May Be Concerned:
Rudy’s Tree
To X
Seven Sons
Waterlilies
Zeppo’s First Wife
They Can’t Take That Away From Me (2001)
Five Poems Entitled "Questions"
Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
Not Crying
Evening
I Wish I Want I Need
Young Apple Tree, December
The Weskit
Penumbra
Last Night
My Dream After Mother Breaks Her Hip
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Hypnosis
At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
Girl in a Library
Twenty Lines before Breakfast
Wakeful before Tests
Shangri-la
Two Bedrooms
Poems
Michelangelo: To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel
Air Drawing
Leah’s Dream
Then
Right Now
Keep Going
The Beach
Low Tide
To Begin This Way Every Day
Three Provincetown Mornings
Insomnia at Daybreak
The Common (1995)
Two Worlds: A Bridge
The Acorn
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Mensch in the Morning
In Houston
Whatever They Want
Desire
Bedroom at Arles
Poem for Christian, My Student
May, Home after a Year Away
Bluebonnets
Fracture Santa Monica
The Idea of Florida during a Winter Thaw
Snake in the Grass
Blue
Why You Travel
After the Storm, August
A Green Watering Can
Maternal
Ware’s Cove
Ice
Traces
Phonic
Pennies from Heaven
Another Tree
Revenant
Yahrzeit
Family Plot
Foliage
The Common
At Boston Garden, the First Night of War, 1991
Poem Ending with Three Lines of Wordsworth’s
Lilacs on Brattle Street
A Small Plane from Boston to Montpelier
From The Pose of Happiness (1986)
Mashpee, 1979
Mashpee, 1952
After the Fire
Ruins
Mashpee Wine
Reading Akhmatova
Next Door
Fallen Angels
In the Dark Our Story
In the Garment District
A Deck of Cards
Teeth
Being Sick
Elementary Education
The Horizontal Man
Jewelweed
Pears
Early Winter
Anomie
Norumbega Park
Daylight
Hurricane Watch
Dog Days, Sweet Everlasting
Longfellow Park, August
Dutch Tulips
Listening to Baseball in the Car
Two Months in the Country
Graves
Afterward
To RTSL, 1985
Spring Planting
From Nightfire (1978)
Baseball
Review Quotes
Fred Marchant | Provincetown Arts
"A ’new and selected’ collection of poetry affords the reader many pleasures a single volume of poetry rarely does. Looming large among these is the chance to track the writer’s growth as an artist. And, because of the broader
canvas, one might get from a “new and selected” group of poems a firmer sense of the writer’s preoccupations in theme and subject matter. Probably the greatest pleasure, however, is the chance to pin down what has drawn one to the work time and again. This became apparent to me as I read the nearly three hundred pages of Zeppo’s First Wife by Gail Mazur, a ’new and selected’ collection that gathers twenty-two new poems and a very generous selection from Ms. Mazur’s four previous books. Judging by my marginal notes and underlining, I am invariably taken by the
exquisitely crafted endings of her poems. Book by book, year after year, her poems startle and move the reader with their capacity to end on a note that belongs to her and no one else. Gail Mazur, it seems, is a master of poetic closure. . . . I think the endings of Gail Mazur’s poems, no matter how sad, frightened, or perplexed, offer us a luminous quality . . . a quality that marks these new and selected poems from beginning to end."
canvas, one might get from a “new and selected” group of poems a firmer sense of the writer’s preoccupations in theme and subject matter. Probably the greatest pleasure, however, is the chance to pin down what has drawn one to the work time and again. This became apparent to me as I read the nearly three hundred pages of Zeppo’s First Wife by Gail Mazur, a ’new and selected’ collection that gathers twenty-two new poems and a very generous selection from Ms. Mazur’s four previous books. Judging by my marginal notes and underlining, I am invariably taken by the
exquisitely crafted endings of her poems. Book by book, year after year, her poems startle and move the reader with their capacity to end on a note that belongs to her and no one else. Gail Mazur, it seems, is a master of poetic closure. . . . I think the endings of Gail Mazur’s poems, no matter how sad, frightened, or perplexed, offer us a luminous quality . . . a quality that marks these new and selected poems from beginning to end."
David Gewanter | Tikkun
"We dream of living on poetry’s high ground, the giddy air and wide prospect that distance us from the drear of everyday life. Yet the brisk, eloquent, and quirky poems of Gail Mazur’s Zeppo’s First Wife may prove that there is more oxygen at ground level. Mazur finds a magic in the everyday, the delights and disorders that characterize a postmodern and multi-everything America."
Robert Pinsky | Washington Post
“Audacity and modesty: In Mazur’s work, those apparent opposites reveal their secret kinship: Modesty from its place on the sidelines can see through the conventional sham of the rules, and audacity has the confidence to embrace the plain, ordinary truth. In the face of demons or emptiness, Mazur offers a song...Part of the pleasure in these poems is their simultaneous large scope and measured, deceptively quiet voice."”
Massachusetts Center for the Book: Mass Book Awards
Won
The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College: Paterson Poetry Prize
Short Listed
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