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The Sparrow: Selected Poems of A.F. Moritz
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ISBN13: 9781487003029
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Featuring internationally acclaimed poetry from more than twenty books and chapbooks published over forty-five years, The Sparrow is a career-spanning selection that reveals how A. F. Moritz's dynamic, ever-exploratory work is also a vast, singular poem.
A. F. Moritz has been called one of the best poets of his generation by John Hollander and a true poet by Harold Bloom, who ranks him alongside Anne Carson. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours throughout North America, including the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Fellowship, Poetry magazine's Beth Hokin Prize, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, and the Griffin Poetry Prize.
The Sparrow: Selected Poems of A. F. Moritz surveys forty-five years of Moritz's published poems, from earlier, lesser-known pieces to the widely acclaimed works of the last twenty years. Here are poems of mystery and imagination; of identification with the other; of compassion, judgement, and rage; of love and eroticism; of mature philosophical, sociological, and political analysis; of history and current events; of contemplation of nature; of exaltation and ennui, fullness and emptiness, and the pure succession and splendour of earthly nights and days.
The Sparrow is more than a selected poems; it is also a single vast poem, in which the individual pieces can be read as facets of an ever-moving whole. This is the world of A. F. Moritz -- a unique combination of lyrical fire and meditative depth, and an imaginative renewal of style and never-ending discovery of form.
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