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At the heart of Gail Mazur's The Common is the refusal to simplify what is paradoxical in our world and a recognition of the tensions in our own divided nature. These unflinching poems create a place where wisdom and foolishness, fear and courage, rage and pity, love and diffidence, naturally co-exist. Desire, ambition, devotion, and devastating loss are all subjects for Mazur's clear-eyed poems, which resonate with the contradictions between the body's yearning and the mind's acknowledgment of the consequences of our choices. In a poetry driven by unrelenting questioning, Mazur tries, in Rilke's worlds, "to love the questions themselves."

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Common
• Author: Gail Mazur
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 86
• EAN: 9780226514383
• ID: 04547337
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 286 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 147 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. July 1995

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