{"product_id":"world-on-a-string-9798991525442","title":"World On a String","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new book of poetry by Cambridge legend Gail Mazur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What an apt title, \u003cem\u003eWorld On a String\u003c\/em\u003e, for poems that speak to the tethering and tenuousness this life is. Mazur writes: 'Go, sit in the woods, ' I said to myself \/ in the middle of my life, 'and learn \/ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the alphabet for what you can find there.' And what an alphabet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e she's found.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Andrea Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Skeptical yet hopeful, candid yet gentle, clear-eyed but forgiving -Mazur's poetry achieves these beautiful simultaneities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Mark Halliday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When I read Gail Mazur's polished-but-not-too-polished genius for the way the lyrical and the historical interpenetrate, I know I'm in the presence of one of the rarest, strangest, most quietly original sensibilities that I've ever read. Full of gravitas, sly humor, and a gift for telling the truth all the way to the bottom, her poems, in Seamus Heaney's words, 'are steeped in luck': the luck of knowing how to conjure gone worlds without strain, of feeling with great accuracy and no noisy rhetoric what Lowell aspired to - to be heartbreaking. But the 'funerals' in Mazur's brain are never just funereal or elegiac grandstanding, but astonishing acts of linguistic virtuosity, seemingly plain-style but so quietly eloquent and luminous that they overbear loss, identity, even the atrocities of history itself. \u003cem\u003eWorld on a String\u003c\/em\u003e is that magnificent instance of heart, love, intelligence, and language all coming together to make a poetry that is permanently achieved.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Tom Sleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arrowsmith Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798991525442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Gail Mazur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51990976200885,"sku":"9798991525442","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_df082b21-323b-4ac6-b6db-68b9e7e7f535.jpg?v=1762838576","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/world-on-a-string-9798991525442","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}