Bøger af 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.

The Sparrow is a career-spanning selection of A. F. Moritz-s internationally acclaimed poetry. Taken from more than twenty books and chapbooks published over forty-five years, The Sparrow reveals how Moritz-s dynamic, ever-exploratory work is also a vast, singular poem.

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.

From one of the defining poets of his generation, a new collection that plumbs the depth of beauty, history, responsibility, and love.