Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Published on 15. September 1999
90 pages
978-1-77131-090-1 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Award for Poetry
From the outskirts of the fevered empire, and the embers that were its heart, Moritz sings us to our selves -- our failures, our cruelties, our stupidities, and beauty which even now astonishes and leaves us breathless. Genuine political poetry is immensely difficult. Moritz succeeds, not because his list of atrocities is longer or more shocking, but because his vision is underwritten -- not whitewashed - by an ecstatic lyricism that knows evanescence is the only enduring truth.
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A native of Niles, Ohio, A.F. Moritz has lived in Toronto since graduating from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1974. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto.
Content
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- The General
- Manifestation
- Artisan and Clerk
- Science of Limits
- Touring Machine
- Going to Meet Moses
- Science
- Ballad of the Sparrow and the Goddess
- Discovery
- In the Desert
- The Little Walls Before China
- Wings
- The Slave
- The Source
- Egg Noodles
- To His Coy Mistress
- On Farming
- Eurydice
- Rest On the Flight Into Egypt
- Silent Night
- Nothing Happened Here
- Landscape: On a Line By Baudelaire
- Rescue
- Disappointment
- Passing the Torch
- Rhythm of a City
- The Specialists
- The Door
- That Day
- The Undertaker
- Untreated Condition
- Imaginative Purity
- Tourist and Beef
- Kissinger At the Funeral of Nixon
- On a Line By Catullus
- On Distinction
- A Former Student
- Ode to Apollo
- Industry
- Early Machines
- The Master
- The Lines
- A Moment of Pure Waking
- Wren House
- Acknowledgements & Thanks
- Notes
- About the Author
