“Mazur’s closeness to experience, her honest assessments and her keen sense of detail inform many of Nightfire’s best poems. Some of these are grim…. for Mazur bears the weight of the facts of life, of other people’s lives as well as her own. This weight does not give her poetry a heavy touch. It is guided not by by a feel for what is grim but by humor, compassion, love and skill.”

–Margaret Holmes, The Nation. 1979