Michael Mazur
MICHAEL MAZUR is a painter and printmaker whose work has been widely exhibited. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Silk by Grace Dane Mazur
Robert Boswell recommends Silk, stories by Grace Dane Mazur: “Mazur is a former microbiologist, and the stories in her first collection offer a means of apprehending the world that is both intellectually fascinating and sensually wired. It is either a book of the mind about pleasures of the flesh, or a book of the flesh…
Zeppo’s First Wife by Gail Mazur
Gail Mazur, Zeppo’s First Wife, poems: This splendid collection of new and selected works draws on Mazur’s four previous books, showcasing her poetic achievements and wry meditations on the everyday. (Chicago)
A Conversation with Gail Mazur
This interview about the Blacksmith House Poetry Series, which will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in 2013, was edited and condensed from a tape recording made as part of the Cambridge Historical Society’s oral history initiative. Gail Mazur is the author of six books of poetry, including They Can’t Take That Away from Me, a…
They Can’t Take That Away from Me by Gail Mazur
Gail Mazur, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, poems: Mazur’s sparkling, compassionate, and illuminating fourth collection measures the passage of time-the body’s desires and frailties, illness and death, children and parents, the intimacies of marriage. (Chicago)
The Common by Gail Mazur
Gail Mazur: The Common (Univ. of Chicago), her third collection of poems, of which Lloyd Schwartz comments: ” ‘Dislocated’ in Houston, New Englander Gail Mazur writes that she’s determined to look at her new surroundings ‘with the wise tough eye of exile.’ She succeeds-partly because, like so many of our very best poets, she is…
Gail Mazur
Gail Mazur’s collections include Forbidden City (University of Chicago Press, 2016); Figures in a Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2005), winner of the Massachusetts Book Prize and finalist for LA Times Book Prize; and They Can’t Take That Away from Me (University of…
Winter 2019-20
The Winter 2019-20 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the…
Book Recommendations from Our Advisory Editors
Jane Hirshfield recommends World of Made and Unmade by Jane Mead (Alice James Books, September 2016): “This is a work of enormous reach and dignity. The collection’s center is Mead’s mother’s death, though naming its subject doesn’t begin to convey the power of Mead’s writing, or of her multifaceted looking and feeling. The land, with…