John Moritz
MAYALAND / CATFISH FRENZY

First Intensity Press
ISBN 10: 1-889960-15-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-889960-15-9
Paper, 60 pp., 6x9
$12

“From either way you go you go to the heart spine joining, the catty cornered artery of the continent, land and life and story, Mayan windows to chemotherapy, the Yucatán Peninsula to the Alexander Archipelago, catfish and gar to the center crossing, the Monkey Scribes to Lord Byron and Meriwether Lewis meeting at the Divide, nowhere else to meet, no more exact than here — ‘I will rail / against the arrogance and disillusion, the remoteness / I have put to a cadence opening / like a jack-in-the-box / to the slow places which otherwise would go unrecorded” — I would follow all the muddy roads of his obsession everywhere they take, and on beyond, no more willing companion of the ways to have, and this poetry, ever.” —Kenneth Irby

John Moritz (1946-2007) lived in Lawrence, Kansas, where he wrote, published poetry and worked as a master pressman for thirty years. He headed Tansy Press.

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