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category: Poetry
published: Apr 2012
ISBN:9781770891890
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc

The New Measures

by A.F. Moritz

tagged: canadian
Description

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry

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 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.

Contributor Notes

A. F. Moritz has written fifteen books of poetry, and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection The Sentinel won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year. He lives in Toronto.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry
Editorial Reviews

The New Measures articulates with great artistry its author's profound concern and abiding love for the human race.

— Quill and Quire

Moritz’s work isn’t light reading, its polished turns of phrase and fluid cadences notwithstanding. But taking the time to let these subtle, far-reaching poems sink in is itself spiritually revitalizing.

— Toronto Star

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