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A.F. Moritz

Winner, 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize“You don’t live if there’s no poetry: you don’t liveat all, or if you appear to yourself to be living, you’re not.You really are living, though, even if you’re dead,because you do have poetry, poetry’s with youwhether or not you know it…”Great Silent Ballad, beloved lyric poet A.F. Moritz’s twenty-second volume of poetry, in visionary terms forwards the assertion that poetr...

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A.F. Moritz

To read A.F. Moritz is to find out what it means to be alive at this juncture of history. These poems are mansions, both derelict and opulent. Wander in with the mind open and hear what the ages, humanity, and the myth of progress have wrought.Night Street Repairs contains necessary meditations on time, modernity, and our current situation as a society of appetite flirting with self-destruction. Many voices act as vigilant witness to our urban wastes and wastefulness.Morit...

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A.F. Moritz

Mortality, Love, Ethics, Civilization, Divine Presence, Human Body, Modernity, The Natural World, and Constructed Spaces. The Sentinel watches and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and worthy of trust. Whether describing renewal and regeneration, the despair brought on by global capitalism, or a place where decay and loss meet their antithesis, A. F. Moritz's magisterial voice, rare insight, and supple craft are on impressive display.

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A.F. Moritz

Finalist, Trillium Book AwardFrom one of the defining poets of his generation, a new collection that plumbs the depth of beauty, history, responsibility, and love.As Far As You Know, acclaimed poet A. F. Moritz’s twentieth collection of poems, begins with two sections entitled “Terrorism” and “Poetry.” The book unfolds in six movements, yet it revolves around and agonizes over the struggle between these two catalyzing concepts, in ...

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A.F. Moritz

A.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In The Wren, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given th...

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Michael Moritz

A deeply moving and intimate story that reveals how the ravages of history that tore one family apart echo across continents nearly a century later."A memoir which ranks alongside The Hare with Amber Eyes."—The Times (London)"Brilliant."—The EconomistSorting through papers and photographs after his mother's death, Michael Moritz uncovers the history of close family members murdered by the ...

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Elan Moritz

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Frontiers of Intelligence

This book is about getting ready for Artificial Minds. When you think Ai and LLMs are the pinnacle, it turns out they're not. The real paradigm shift and challenges will come when we have to face and work with artificial minds. This is book is about equipping ourselves with the tools to understand, discuss, and prepare for Artificial and Digital Minds.Conceptions of Mind: A Historical Census takes a census of one of the oldest and most con...

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A. F. Moritz

Few artists (one thinks of Rilke and Hopkins) have presumed to evoke the spirit of embodied Nature. A. F. Moritz not only succeeds in thus animating a living world, but he deals with our human presence and assault on it with sympathy and a larger vision than the misanthropy such injuries easily summon. This is nature poetry with a difference: through Moritz's landscapes, from the abandoned industries of the Rust Belt to the decaying monuments of vanished civilization, move the vivid and en...

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A.F. Moritz

Featuring internationally acclaimed poetry from more than twenty books and chapbooks published over forty-five years, The Sparrow is a career-spanning selection that reveals how A. F. Moritz’s dynamic, ever-exploratory work is also a vast, singular poem.A. 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 ho...

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Andreas Moritz

Make Peace with Your Heart and Heal Yourself Less than one hundred years ago, heart disease was an extremely rare disease. Today it kills more people in the developed world than all other causes of death combined. Despite the vast amount of financial resources spent on finding a cure for heart disease, the current medical approaches remain mainly symptom-oriented and do not address the underlying causes. Even worse: There is overwhelming evidence to show that the treatment of heart disease...

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A. F. Moritz

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. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book centers on the South Central Los Angeles “riot” of 1992 in response to the acquittal of police officers caught badly beating Rodney King in 1991. From this central point, the poem and essay reach out to encompass t...

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Moritz Borgmann

The inflation is eating away at your savings, and everything is getting more expensive? Riester and savings accounts no longer contribute to building wealth but only bring wrinkles of concern? And you're wondering if it's even possible to build wealth on an average salary? Luckily, yes – and how this is possible with stocks and ETFs, even for financial market novices, you'll learn in this book! The financial certainties of our grandparents are outdated: savings accounts, Riester pensions, ...