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Moritz, A. F. (Albert Frank), author

As far as you know : poems / A.F. Moritz.

[Toronto] : Anansi [2020].

©2020

129 pages ; 22 cm

"As Far As You Know, acclaimed poet A. F. Moritz's twentieth collection of poems, begins with two sections entitled "Terrorism" and "Poetry." The book unfolds in six movements, yet it revolves around and agonizes over the struggle between these two catalyzing concepts, in all the forms they might take, eventually arguing they are the unavoidable conditions and quandary of human life. Written and organized chronologically around before and after the poet's serious illness and heart surgery in 2014, these gorgeously unguarded poems plumb and deepen the reader's understanding of Moritz's primary and ongoing obsessions: beauty, impermanence, history, social conscience and responsibility, and, always and most urgently, love. For all its necessary engagement with worry, sorrow, and fragility, As Far As You Know sings a final insistent chorus to what it loves: "You will live."-- Provided by publisher.

American poetry

Poetry

Terrorism -- The ram -- A book travels -- A throw of the dice -- Troubadour -- How you love, how you think -- As far as you know -- Further nudity -- Naked to all interpretation -- Silence and song -- High windows -- The glimpse -- Names of birds -- All one limit -- Baltimore May 2015 -- The unemployable: an essay on isolation -- Philosopher and Southern Ohio -- To the reader -- Before definition -- The twins -- Love poem -- Childhood friend -- Weed trees --The corral -- The stag -- Garden now of -- To cross over into camp fire -- Sudden little parade downtown -- The mural -- To the soul -- Man changing into thunderbird (Norval Morrisseau 1977) -- Escape to the sea -- The commandment of love -- Our dark hands -- The fount of every name -- The history of grief -- The wanderer -- Reverie -- Love, thou art absolute sole lord -- Art of surgery -- Descent to the dead -- Dream -- The pond in the woods -- Virgil, legend -- Nazareth -- The year -- The one who answers the call -- Never to be exhausted -- Gift, distance -- Fair and dark -- The universe -- Pronunciation -- To merwin -- In the past -- Then demeter gave -- The spot -- An image of our life

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