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from Mount Fuji A draughtsman's draughtsman, Hokusai at 70 thought he'd begun to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way plants grow, hoped that by 90 he'd havepenetrated to their essential nature. And more, by 100, I will have reached the stagewhere every dot, every mark I make will bealive. You always loved that resolve, you'd repeat joyfullyHokusai's utterance of faith in work's possibilities, its reward, that, at 130, he'd perhaps have learned to draw. Gail Mazur's poems in Forbidden City build an engaging meditative structure upon the elements of mortality and art, eloquently contemplating the relationship of art and lifeand the dynamic possibilities of each in combination. At the collection's heart is the poet's long marriage to the artist Michael Mazur (19352009). A fascinating range of tone infuses the bookgrieving, but clear-eyed rather than lugubrious, sometimes whimsical, even comical, and often exuberant. The note of pleasure, as in

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/03/2016
      ISBN13: 9780226349565, 978-0226349565
      ISBN10: 022634956X
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      from Mount Fuji A draughtsman's draughtsman, Hokusai at 70 thought he'd begun to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way plants grow, hoped that by 90 he'd havepenetrated to their essential nature. And more, by 100, I will have reached the stagewhere every dot, every mark I make will bealive. You always loved that resolve, you'd repeat joyfullyHokusai's utterance of faith in work's possibilities, its reward, that, at 130, he'd perhaps have learned to draw. Gail Mazur's poems in Forbidden City build an engaging meditative structure upon the elements of mortality and art, eloquently contemplating the relationship of art and lifeand the dynamic possibilities of each in combination. At the collection's heart is the poet's long marriage to the artist Michael Mazur (19352009). A fascinating range of tone infuses the bookgrieving, but clear-eyed rather than lugubrious, sometimes whimsical, even comical, and often exuberant. The note of pleasure, as in

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