Released:
15 March 2008

Artwork:
Rudolf Kurz, six pen-and-ink drawings

Printing:
Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia | cover: letterpress on Gold handmade 140lb paper from La Papeterie Saint-Armand, Montréal, Québec | inside: poems offset, and plates letterpress, on Strathmore Pure Cotton, Bright White 24lb text | title text and page numbering composed in Kartago and all other text in Leitura Roman 2 | hand-sewn and bound in black thread.

Table of Contents | Poems | Author Page

Sound of Hungry Animals cries out in a singular voice about the mysteries of love, oppression, and the beast that is survival. Moritz's surrealist vision is amplified in the grotesque drawings of Rudolf Kurz that have been especially commissioned for this limited edition of 125 chapbooks. Dream-images are rendered breathtakingly in both word and ink.

REVIEW

"Sound of Hungry Animals is a well-measured collection that showcases Moritz's considerable talents as a poet. As a meditation, it manages to present its preoccupations with both compression and elegance. Equally, the poems do not seek to restrain themselves aesthetically; they are unabashedly what they are. This volume, though, more than anything else, furthers the case that, however outstanding the craft, however striking the imagery mustered by the poet, it is his willingness to place all of himself on the page that makes the work of A. F. Moritz so compelling. His poems breathe, are as human as he is..."
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Ben Meyerson, Canada