Biography of the Tyrant by A. F. Moritz Hell is like you: being nothing on earth but terror others are absorbing— digesting the maiming of their body into the body of tomorrow, the beautiful one. Hell is put down into the dirt to decompose to a grain of the core—fire, that loam. Hell is your being the will to ash and torture: dead from the start, dropped in the dark, festering to feed the ultimate root of the meditation of life, the planet of health—the surface, the face, flesh, skin of the planet far above the molten generator. Hell is to be unwilling, unwitting, a food of the green gold land, the blue silver ocean, under the white and gold blue sky.
A. F. Moritz has published more than 20 books of poetry that have received various recognitions, such as the Griffin Poetry Prize. His 2024 book, Great Silent Ballad, received the 2025 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. In 2026 he has published The Wren, poems, and a translation, Eternities (bilingual edition), of the 1918 book Eternidades by Juan Ramón Jiménez.
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