In New Poems, he embraces that calling, and writes in a voice that belongs to the continuous poetic present, an illimitable moment that is all at once mid-century, Elizabethan, metaphysical, and acutely modern. The formal and philosophical aspects on display in New Poems suggest that Mazer knows he is furthering on traditions established by T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell. Evidence of myriad subtler influences as well can be found, evidences of Hart Crane, Delmore Schwartz, Robert Graves; John Crowe Ransom, Jack Spicer, John Berryman. The host of these influences move through Mazer's poetry but never dominate it. Instead, influence is transmuted by and bound up into Mazer's uncanny music of rhythm, emblem, and image.