The Garden
A Poem and an Essay
Published on 1. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-77422-038-2 (ISBN)
Description
""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, both from many individual members of the general citizenry, and through the legislative, police, and judicial institutions that express the citizenry. The book is epic, lyrical, and analytical. It is uniquely comprised of a long poem, "The Garden in the Midst", and an in-depth essay, "The Poet's Garden". Each centers on the South Central Los Angeles "riot" of 1992 in response to the not guilty verdict on police officers video-ed badly beating Rodney King in 1991. From this central point, the poem and essay reach out to embrace the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd, and the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, and the long history of legalized criminal repression these two deaths belong to."--
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77422-038-2 (9781774220382)
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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 republication 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.