By Gail Mazur

ISBN-10: 022634956X

ISBN-13: 9780226349565

from “Mount Fuji”

A draughtsman’s draughtsman, Hokusai at 70

thought he’d began to understand the structures

 

of birds and beasts, bugs and fish, of the way

plants develop, was hoping that via ninety he’d have

penetrated to their crucial nature.

 

And extra, through a hundred, I could have reached the stage

where each dot, each mark I make will be

alive. you usually enjoyed that get to the bottom of, you’d repeat

 

joyfully—Hokusai’s utterance of faith

in work’s chances, its gift, that,

at a hundred thirty, he’d maybe have discovered to draw.

 

Gail Mazur’s poems in Forbidden City  build a fascinating meditative constitution upon the weather of mortality and artwork, eloquently considering the connection of paintings and life—and the dynamic probabilities of every one together. on the collection’s center is the poet’s lengthy marriage to the artist Michael Mazur (1935–2009). a desirable diversity of tone infuses the book—grieving, yet clear-eyed instead of lugubrious, occasionally whimsical, even comical, and sometimes exuberant. The notice of enjoyment, as in an outdated culture enriched by way of transience, runs throughout the paintings, even within the ultimate poem, “Grief,” the place “our starving carry at the global” is a robust crucial element.

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