{"product_id":"great-silent-ballad-a-f-moritz-9781487012960","title":"Great Silent Ballad: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"You don't live if there's no poetry: you don't live\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eat all, or if you appear to yourself to be living, you're not.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou really are living, though, even if you're dead, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebecause you do have poetry, poetry's with you\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewhether or not you know it...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreat Silent Ballad\u003c\/em\u003e, beloved lyric poet A.F. Moritz's twenty-second volume of poetry, in visionary terms forwards the assertion that poetry, a primordial reality, is in the current moment both the equal of, and the antidote to, the rest of present-day civilization and its suicidal nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book unfolds in seven short sections that probe such topics as the crucial value of childhood; a human person's development through maturity and age; the perennially avant-garde nature of great poetry no matter what time and place; and poetry's inherent involvement with hope and creativity, life and feeling, freedom and love. \u003cem\u003eGreat Silent Ballad\u003c\/em\u003e also reprises Moritz's longstanding celebration of common human conversation, the apex of which (he argues convincingly) is what we call \"poetry\"--meaning not just the art of verse, but our total access to the goodness of natural existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. F. Moritz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487012969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487012960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e House of Anansi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"A. F. Moritz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45897640378623,"sku":"9781487012960","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_908e0cc2-00ea-44c2-8b00-599539752a4a.jpg?v=1721374396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/great-silent-ballad-a-f-moritz-9781487012960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}