Rest on the Flight into Egypt by A.F. Moritz - The General (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)

The cover art for Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a painting by Bernard van Orley (1491-1542) which is on display in the Art Gallery of Ontario

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.

Albert Frank Moritz (born April 15, 1947) is a poet, teacher, and scholar. He has lived in Toronto since graduating from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1974. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto.

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.