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GREAT SILENT BALLAD
Anansi, September 2024
Winner of the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize
Great Silent Ballad, lyric poet A.F. Moritz’s twenty-second volume of poetry, in visionary terms, forwards the assertion that poetry, a primordial reality, is in the current moment both the equal of, and the antidote to, the rest of present-day civilization and its suicidal nature.
The Waste Land Project
Vallum Chapbook Series, No. 40, 2025
This chapbook brings together twelve poems responding to the subject of war, with emphasis on war in Ukraine. Created for The Waste Land Project, an initiative by Theater of War in collaboration with the Toronto International Festival of Authors (Canada), Bristol Ideas (UK), and Aké Arts and Books Festival (Nigeria), the poems were inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land on its 100th anniversary.
THE GARDEN
The Garden by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book … suggests that only the essence of poetry can prove antithetical antidote—if there can even be one—to this human crime and tragedy.
AS FAR AS YOU KNOW
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.
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