New PDF release: Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems (Phoenix Poets)

from Enormously Sad

. . . unhappy, so sad-compared to what?

To your previous extra oblivious state?

It by no means used to be oblivious enough-

always these presentiments of sadness

prickling the limbic. Now a voice says, Get outside

yourself, move stroll at the apartments. The tide's long past out—

but your little steel detector will observe little metal coins

of huge, immense unhappiness within the teeming rainy sand,

and then, the tide will come again, erasing, cleansing!

And you, status there within the salty scouring air-

will you continue to be enormously sad,

While the opposite international, outdoors your tiny purview, struck

by iron, reels? global of intentional iron, natural savage

organized iron of the realm, it hasn't the time

that you've got on your puny huge, immense sadness.

Widely acclaimed for increasing the stylistic barriers of either the narrative and meditative lyric, Gail Mazur’s poetry crackles with verbal invention as she confronts the inevitable upheavals of a lived existence. Zeppo’s First Wife, consisting of excerpts from Mazur’s 4 past books, in addition to twenty-two new poems, is epitomized by means of the worldly longing of the name poem, with its looking out poignancy and comedian bravura. Mazur’s explorations of “this fallen global, this loony global” are deeply relocating acts of empathy by means of a novel ethical sensibility—evident from the earliest poem integrated the following, the much-anthologized “Baseball,” a gorgeous bird’s-eye view of human foibles and passions. Clear-eyed, packed with paradoxical griefs and appetites, her poems courageous the main pressing subjects—from the fraught luscious Eden of the ballpark, to the fragility of our closest human ties, to the consequences for the US in an international the place strength and conflict are cataclysmic for the powerful in addition to the weak.