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category: Poetry
published: Apr 2015
ISBN:9781770898714
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc

Sequence

by A.F. Moritz

tagged: canadian
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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 most recent books are As Far As You Know (2020), and The Sparrow: Selected Poems (2018), both from House of Anansi Press, and the 2015 re-publication by Princeton University Press of his 1986 volume, The Tradition. His twenty books of poetry have received such recognitions as the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Award. Three of his books have been finalists for the Governor General’s Award in Literature for poetry.

Editorial Review

Moritz's exquisite control of line length, among other techniques, creates unique forms, and the poems themselves move smoothly between modes.

— Quill & Quire
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