Mahoning by A.F. Moritz - Kingdoms and Leaves (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)

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. 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 engaging characters we have come to expect from this clear-eyed and open-hearted poet.