“Mazer is revolutionary, in our view, because, for the first time since Tennyson, poetry is once again allowed to be itself, to produce symphonies—with no need to parody, or feel self-consciously modern. Mazer’s poems seem to say to us: Among all your suffering, look! This lighted window really is for you. The couch of art with its faint, sad music, belongs to everyone. You may all rest here. Mazer is doing something wonderful and important. Mazer is it.” (Thomas Graves of Scarriet)
“What Mazer pulls off is great poems, one after another, that, yes, do indeed rhyme, without reminding one of the above quoted lines from Pope, and without seeming antiquated, that are injected with a fresh vitality that rushes through each line, each rhyme, and the whole of the work itself. A vitality that makes the work read as fresh and contemporary as anything out there . . . he’s a voice worth reckoning to the Titans of English verse.” (Christopher Cadra of Literati Quarterly)
- Title: December Poems
- Author: Ben Mazer
- Publisher: Pen & Anvil Press
- Boston, MA
- Year: 2016
- Softcover
- Condition: New
- Length: 58pp
- Dimensions: 6” x 9”
- ISBN: 9780991622276