{"product_id":"forbidden-city","title":"Forbidden City","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eForbidden City\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGail Mazur\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226349565\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom \"Mount Fuji\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A draughtsman's draughtsman, Hokusai at 70 \u003cbr\u003e thought he'd begun to grasp the structures \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way \u003cbr\u003e plants grow, hoped that by 90 he'd have \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003epenetrated to their essential nature\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And more, by 100, \u003ci\u003eI will have reached the stage\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhere every dot, every mark I make will be\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ealive.\u003c\/i\u003e You always loved that resolve, you'd repeat \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e joyfully--Hokusai's utterance of faith \u003cbr\u003e in work's possibilities, its reward, that, \u003cbr\u003e at 130, he'd perhaps have learned to draw. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gail Mazur's poems in \u003ci\u003eForbidden City\u003c\/i\u003e build an engaging meditative structure upon the elements of mortality and art, eloquently contemplating the relationship of art and life--and the dynamic possibilities of each in combination. At the collection's heart is the poet's long marriage to the artist Michael Mazur (1935-2009). A fascinating range of tone infuses the book--grieving, but clear-eyed rather than lugubrious, sometimes whimsical, even comical, and often exuberant. The note of pleasure, as in an old tradition enriched by transience, runs through the work, even in the final poem, \"Grief,\" where \"our ravenous hold on the world\" is a powerful central element.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Forbidden City | Gail Mazur | Paperback | 9780226349565 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1657799","offer_id":50781460136194,"sku":"1657799","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71sHzVyg5cL.jpg?v=1792210277","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/forbidden-city","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}