Description
The latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.
In Sequence, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's "convulsive beauty."
Sequence dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
Moritz's exquisite control of line length, among other techniques, creates unique forms, and the poems themselves move smoothly between modes. -- Candace Fertile * Quill & Quire *
Book Information
ISBN 9781770898714
Author A.F. Moritz
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Weight(grams) 283g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 15mm
