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Gail Mazur


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After nearly 13 years of apprenticing herself to poetry, during which she studied with Robert Lowell and immersed herself in the Boston/Cambridge literary scene, Gail Mazur published her first collection, Nightfire (1978), at age 40. Other books include The Pose Of Happiness: Poems (1986); They Can't Take That Away from Me (2001); and Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems (2006). Tess Taylor, interviewing Mazur for the Atlantic Monthly in 2006, described the work in Zeppo’s First Wife as “restless and canny, penned in the voice of a tough-minded, comic speaker who names the minute disconsolations of daily life and then urges herself to engage this named world more wholly or more deeply.”

A graduate of Smith College, Mazur has received
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Average rating: 3.53 · 123 ratings · 18 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors
Zeppo's First Wife: New and...

3.17 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Figures in a Landscape

3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Land's End: New and Selecte...

3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Forbidden City

4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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The Common

3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Nightfire

3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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Pose of Happiness

2.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Figures in a Landscape

2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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World On a String

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Forbidden City

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