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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.
About the author
A.F. MORITZ's most recent books from House of Anansi Press are
Great Silent Ballad (2024),
As Far as You Know (2020) and
The Sparrow: Selected Poems (2018). Three of his books have been finalists for the Governor General's Award;
The Sentinel won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His work overall has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other recognitions. A.F. Moritz was Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2019 to 2023.
Summary
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award
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.
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Praise for The Sentinel:
"An ancient voice, mournful like the wind, speaks to itself yet means to be overheard in A. F. Moritz's amazing poems . . . We seem to hear shattered echoes from the Bible, Dante, Petrarch, or Scève bound up in Maldoror's cruel eloquence."
John Ashbery
