A.F. Moritz

Albert Frank Moritz (born April 15, 1947) is a poet, teacher, and scholar. Born in Niles, Ohio, Moritz was educated at Marquette University. Since 1975, he has made his home in Toronto, Ontario where he has worked variously as an advertising copywriter and executive, editor, publisher, and university professor. His poetry has been honored with a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and numerous other awards. He currently teaches at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. He is married to Theresa Moritz, with whom he has collaborated on a number of books. 2Bibliography 3Poetry 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 (with Ludwig Zeller) Mahoning – 1994 Night Street Repairs Early Poems Conflicting Desire The End of the Age Rest on the Flight into Egypt – 1999 A Houseboat on the Styx The Sentinel (House of Anansi Press, 2008) – winner of the 2009 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize) Sequence - 2015 3Non-fiction 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) 3Translations 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 2External links A. F. Moritz Official Website The Albert Frank (A.F.) Moritz fonds at the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto Griffin Poetry Prize biography Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip A.F. Moritz: master of metaphor – Profile in The Globe and Mail What Man Has Made of Man – Can poetry reconnect the individual and societ