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{"id":6813803053115,"title":"The Sparrow","handle":"the-sparrow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing internationally acclaimed poetry from more than twenty books and chapbooks published over forty-five years, \u003ci\u003eThe Sparrow \u003c\/i\u003eis a career-spanning selection that reveals how A. F. Moritz’s dynamic, ever-exploratory work is also a vast, singular poem. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. F. Moritz has been called “one of the best poets of his generation” by John Hollander and “a true poet” by Harold Bloom, who ranks him alongside Anne Carson. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours throughout North America, including the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Fellowship, \u003ci\u003ePoetry \u003c\/i\u003emagazine’s Beth Hokin Prize, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, and the Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems of A. F. Moritz\u003c\/i\u003e surveys forty-five years of Moritz’s published poems, from earlier, lesser-known pieces to the widely acclaimed works of the last twenty years. Here are poems of mystery and imagination; of identification with the other; of compassion, judgement, and rage; of love and eroticism; of mature philosophical, sociological, and political analysis; of history and current events; of contemplation of nature; of exaltation and ennui, fullness and emptiness, and the pure succession and splendour of earthly nights and days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sparrow \u003c\/i\u003eis more than a selected poems; it is also a single vast poem, in which the individual pieces can be read as facets of an ever-moving whole. This is the world of A. F. 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The Sparrow
The Sparrow is a career-spanning selection of A. F. Moritz's internationally acclaimed poetry.
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{"id":7348969177147,"title":"The New Measures","handle":"the-new-measures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-20T16:55:00-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-20T16:52:08-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-04-07"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":42024737538107,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891104","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The New Measures - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":109,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891104","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_21217882-2618-40ee-8a01-1afa9bae5f52.jpg?v=1740088348"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_21217882-2618-40ee-8a01-1afa9bae5f52.jpg?v=1740088348","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25135674294331,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_21217882-2618-40ee-8a01-1afa9bae5f52.jpg?v=1740088348"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_21217882-2618-40ee-8a01-1afa9bae5f52.jpg?v=1740088348","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The New Measures
A bold collection from Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award winner poet A.F. Moritz.
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The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
In her fourth collection Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts.
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The Sentinel is a good place to become acquainted with Moritz's work...a masterpiece...Moritz's free verse takes on a classical quality...The Sentinel is an exploration of the possibilities of hope...[Moritz is a] rare poet...” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Al Moritz is a poet of high seriousness - rare in this quick and confessional age. And so, all the more to be valued.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eP.K. Page\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"P.K. Page","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“An ancient voice, mournful like the wind, speaks to itself yet means to be overheard in A.F. 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The Sentinel
A. F. Moritz's magisterial voice, rare insight, and supple craft are on impressive display in this Griffin Poetry Prize winning collection.
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This is [Solie's] strongest book yet.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Paul Vermeersch","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePigeon \u003c\/em\u003e… shows why [Solie] has become one of the most admired Canadian poets of her generation.\" — \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Vermeersch, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Richard Greene","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"Solie has found a technique that others could only envy.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeName_0":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year","PrizeName_1":"Griffin Poetry Prize","PrizeName_2":"Pat Lowther Memorial Award","PrizeName_3":"Pat Lowther Memorial Award","PrizeName_4":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeYear_0":"2009","PrizeYear_1":"2010","PrizeYear_2":"2010","PrizeYear_3":"2010","PrizeYear_4":"2010","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2009-04-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.","Width":"5.63","WidthCode":"in"}
Pigeon
Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.
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NDN Coping Mechanisms
The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.
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O Resplandor
Erin Moure explores the idea that the act of reading is a practice of embodiment, containing all the experiences of the body itself.
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{"id":6582759653435,"title":"Sequence special hardcover edition","handle":"sequence-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:41-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403468226619,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899827","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Sequence special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":231,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770899827","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24253405397051,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3189,"width":2551,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3189,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842","width":2551}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection The Caiplie Caves is limited to 50 copies.
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Ferrying the intimate self through the public realm, these poems meditate on the tensile strength of our most elemental bonds and beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsistently attuned to the demotic and the enigmatic, she returns our language to us as if new again, in a style somehow both nomadic and steady, both unpredictable and meticulously crafted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligent, witty, tough-minded, and perceptive, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e offers Solie's most exciting and captivating work to date, in poems of natural contemplation and uncertainty ranging under the aegis of lyric grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770898202","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898202\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"104","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“…remarkable…[t]here are glimmers of hope in these poems…” — \u003cstrong\u003eCandace Fertile, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Unease is arguably the dominant mood of our cultural moment — and Karen Solie taps into it brilliantly in her fourth collection, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, a follow-up to her Griffin Poetry Prize-winning Pigeon.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBarb Carey, \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Barb Carey","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Solie at her best” — \u003cstrong\u003eEmma Healey, \u003cem\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Emma Healey","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“…she might be the most technically sound sentence engineer in the country, prose authors included.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJacob McArthur Mooney, \u003cem\u003eThe National Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Jacob McArthur Mooney","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover special edition","PublicationDate":"2015-04-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.
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