The New Measures - Moritz, A F
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The follow up to "The Sentinel," winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A.F. Moritz's "The New Measures" is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. "The New Measures" makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The follow up to "The Sentinel," winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A.F. Moritz's "The New Measures" is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. "The New Measures" makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.
Autorenporträt
A. F. MORITZ's entire post-education life has been spent in Toronto; he was the city's poet laureate 2019-2023. He has written twenty-two books of poetry. His works with Anansi, since 2004, have received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit Award, the Beth Hokin Prize, and the Raymond Souster Award, and were finalists for the Governor General's Award (twice) and the Trillium Award. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, and the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.