When reading The Sparrow, Moritz’s latest selected poems, I was taken aback by how fluid it all seemed—it felt like reading a single, very long, very old sequence that is determined to smoke-out something from a thick, thorny brush…its target unknowable, yet still set in its ways.
I have an interview with James Linsday available on Open Book, “A Poem Discloses Something, An Interview with A.F. Moritz.” We discuss the process of selecting poems for The Sparrow, the cohesion of my poetry then and now, and the ways in which my poems converse with the work of the writers who have influenced me. Have a look!
