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The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry in English from the shortlist of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable t...

STRONG TRACK RECORD: His Early Poems (2002), with a preface by John Hollander, sold well nationally in America. He was selected to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 1984, and his 1986 book in that series, The Tradition, was republished in 2015 in the Princeton Legacy Series. He has appeared in four volumes of the annual Best American Poetry anthology series and in The Best of the Best American Poetry edited by Harold Bloom.HIGHLY R...

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 ...

Night Street Repairs" contains elegiac meditations on time, modernity, and contemporary culture's unending flirtation with self-destruction. The many voices in these poems bear vigilant witness to humankind's urban wastes and wastefulness. Moritz's unmistakable cadences - magisterial, philosophical, and wry - mingle among the ancients, the Bible, Leopardi, Montale, and Rilke. These poems are mansions, at once derelict and opulent, inviting rea...

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 i...

John Ashbery's esteem for A. F. Moritz has been seconded repeatedly by critics and readers. Starting in 1975 with "Here" and continuing through the years to Moritz's latest, "The Sentinel, " this poet has carved an important career in poetry. This new collection has already begun garnering praise and awards: the title poem was honored by the prestigious "Poetry" magazine. These poems, exploring everything from vanishing civilizations to nature...