Others Have Written...
I'll always be grateful for the collaboration with Michael Mazur: his great illustrations continue to guide my understanding of the INFERNO. His works embody the emotional range of the poem, its intimacy and grandeur.
Robert Pinsky, poet and former United States Poet Laureate
This is one of the most graphic embodiments of tragic vision by any artist – Aristotelian "pity and terror" – a devastating visualization of Dante's words that is finally also (and must be) beyond words.
Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize winning critic and poet
Mazur, a master of the monotype, offers a veritable visual commentary in step with Dante's voyage through hell. He continues an American tradition of doing Dante in black and white, yet at the same time revives and radicalizes an older, European motif by placing the viewer once again in the midst of the drama: you play the Poet's part while Mazur, through his experience in probing graphically the limits of human psychology and his thoughtful reading of the Commedia, capably assumes the Virgilian mantle."
Christian Dupont, a scholar in the Special Dante Collection of the Hecksher Library at Notre Dame University
Mazur, unlike many of his predecessors who have explored the infinite possibilities of Dantesque imagery, has remained true to his personal itinerary of innovation within his own artistic vision. He never opts for the obvious or the easily identifiable, but chooses instead solutions that are destined to remain in a timeless dimension.
Giorgio Marini, Curator of Graphic Arts,Museo di Castelvecchio,Verona
We have here, in communion, three masters: the Italian poet, his modern American translator, and the modern artist. Mazur has re-thought, re-felt this monumental poem in terms as majestic and memorable as Doré's.
Rosanna Warren, poet and Professor of English, Boston University