A. F. Moritz
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| Born | Albert Frank Moritz 15 April 1947 Niles, Ohio |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Marquette University |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship,ReLit Award,Griffin Poetry Prize |
| Spouse | Theresa Moritz |
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Albert Frank Moritz(born 15 April 1947) is aUnited States-bornCanadianpoet,teacher,andscholar.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Born inNiles,Ohio,[2]Moritz was educated atMarquette University,receiving aPh.D.for his dissertation onTennyson.[3]
Since 1975, he has made his home inToronto,Ontariowhere he has worked variously as an advertisingcopywriterand executive,editor,publisher,and universityprofessor.His poetry has been honored with a 1990Guggenheim Fellowship,inclusion in thePrinceton Series of Contemporary Poets,and numerous other awards. He currently teaches atVictoria Collegein theUniversity of Toronto.[4]
He was the winner of theReLit Awardfor poetry in 2005 forNight Street Repairs,theGriffin Poetry Prizein 2009 forThe Sentinel,[5]and theRaymond Souster Awardin 2013 forThe New Measures.[6]He is a three-time nominee for theGovernor General's Award for English-language poetry,receiving nominations at the2000 Governor General's AwardsforRest on the Flight into Egypt,[7]at the2008 Governor General's AwardsforThe Sentinel,[8]and at the2012 Governor General's AwardsforThe New Measures.[9]
In 2019, Moritz was named as the newPoet Laureate of Toronto.[4]
In May 2019 theRedpath Sugarcompany decided to withdraw their invitation for Moritz to recite a new poem he had composed at a celebration of the 60th anniversary of their opening of theRedpath Sugar Refinery,on Toronto's waterfront.[10]Passages in his poem reflected on the sugar industry's dark legacy of the use of slave labour. Moritz said he was not offended by Redpath rescinding his invitation, comparing the anniversary celebration to a wedding, where those organizing the event had an unquestionable right to control the event.
He is married to Theresa Moritz, with whom he has collaborated on a number of books.
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Here– 1975
- Signs and Certainties– 1979
- Black Orchid– 1981
- Between the Root and the Flower– 1982
- The Visitation– 1983
- The Tradition– 1986
- Song of Fear– 1992
- The Ruined Cottage– 1993
- Ciudad interior– 1993
- Phantoms in the Ark– 1994 (withLudwig Zeller)
- Mahoning– 1994
- Early Poems
- Conflicting Desire
- The End of the Age
- A Houseboat on the Styx– 1998
- Rest on the Flight into Egypt– 1999
- Night Street Repairs(House of Anansi Press,2004)
- The Sentinel(House of Anansi Press,2008) – winner of the 2009 CanadianGriffin Poetry Prize)
- The New Measures- (House of Anansi Press,2012)
- Sequence- (House of Anansi Press,2015)
- The Sparrow(House of Anansi Press,2018)
- As Far As You Know(House of Anansi Press,2020)
Non-fiction
[edit]- Canada Illustrated
- America the Picturesque
- The Pocket Canada: A Guidebook– 1982
- Leacock: A Biography– 1985 (with Theresa Moritz)
- The Oxford Literary Guide to Canada– 1987 (with Theresa Moritz)
- The World's Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman(with Theresa Moritz)
- Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life(with Theresa Moritz)
Translations
[edit]- Children of the Quadrilateral: Selected Poems of Benjamin Péret
- Testament of Man: Selected Poems of Gilberto Meza
- Ludwig Zeller in the Country of the Antipodes: Poems 1964–1979
- The Marble Head and Other Poems,by Ludwig Zeller
- The Ghost's Tattoos,by Ludwig Zeller
- Body of Insomnia and Other Poems,by Ludwig Zeller
- Rio Loa: Station of Dreams,by Ludwig Zeller
References
[edit]- ^"Review: A.F. Moritz does ‘the hard work of looking back’ with career-spanning The Sparrow".The Globe and Mail,July 19, 2018.
- ^"That beautiful affliction; Acclaimed poet A.F. Moritz brings his penetrating voice to Edmonton poetry festival".Edmonton Journal,April 24, 2011.
- ^Moritz, Albert Frank (1975).Tennyson and the Defense of Romantic Faith(Ph.D.thesis).Marquette University.
- ^ab"New poet laureate, A.F. Moritz, calls Toronto an ‘outstanding little city-state’".Toronto Star,March 6, 2019.
- ^"A. F. Moritz named Canadian winner of 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize".National Post,June 4, 2009.
- ^"A.F. Moritz, Gillian Savigny honoured by league".National Post,June 15, 2013.
- ^"Atwood, Ondaatje, Bowering among nominees for Governor General's awards".Canadian Press,October 24, 2000.
- ^"Selected nominees for the Governor General's Literary Awards".Canadian Press,October 21, 2008.
- ^"'It's definitely a way to get noticed'; Finalists for GG Literary Awards announced".National Post,October 3, 2012.
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Brendan Kennedy (23 May 2019)."Redpath Sugar asked Toronto's poet laureate to write a poem for its anniversary, but he refused to sugar-coat it".Toronto Star.Archivedfrom the original on 24 May 2019.Retrieved24 May2019.
Moritz's poem, which is titled "The Current of the Sugar," is written in the form of a glosa, which takes four lines from an admired poem and uses them as the last lines in a new four-stanza poem. The four lines Moritz uses are from a poem written in 1858 by John Redpath, Redpath Sugar's founder.
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