Book Launch: Eternities, A.F. Moritz, in Conversation with Beatriz Hausner

Join us in celebrating the launch of A.F. Moritz's Eternities, (Bitter Oleander Press, 2026), his translation of Nobel Prize Winner Juan Ramón Jiménez's Eternidades. Moritz will read from the book and take part in a conversation with Toronto poet Beatriz Hausner.

Books will be available to purchase on site.
Refreshments may be purchased from the adjoining Southern Cross Room and brought into the Living Room.
This event is free and open to the public, and the venue is accessible.
Please register to attend, as capacity is limited.

Written in 1916 and 1917 and published in 1918 by Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez, Eternities is one of the foundational books of modern Spanish literature and of the modernist period. A.F. Moritz presents a masterful translation of Jiménez’s landmark collection.

“Juan Ramón’s first trip to America (1916) and his interest in English-language poetry, especially Emily Dickinson, profoundly marked his work during the period in which he wrote Eternidades (1918)…a milestone work in Juan Ramón’s journey from what was called ‘pure poetry’ to what he later termed, in the famous poem 5 of Eternidades, ‘naked poetry’.”

— Alberto Blanco

“Eternities is one of the very best translations of any of the great Spanish-language poets. A.F. Moritz has created a unique, entrancing English that conveys Juan Ramón Jiménez’s major 1918 book Eternidades in all its directness and profundity. Here in Spanish and English are this great poet’s dynamic ecstasy, his restless searching and constant creation, his combination of complexity with an apparent simplicity which, paradoxically, is at last a true simplicity.”

— Homero Aridjis

Beatriz Hausner was born in Chile and immigrated to Canada with her family when she was a teenager. She has published many poetry books, including She Who Lies Above (2023), Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020) Enter the Raccoon (2012), Sew Him Up (2010), and The Wardrobe Mistress (2004). Her prose and poetry have been published in many chapbooks and included in several anthologies, and her books have been published internationally and translated into several languages, including her native Spanish, French, Dutch, and Greek. She is an active participant in the international surrealist movement, and a respected historian and translator of Latin American surrealism. Hausner, who is trilingual, served three terms as President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and was Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission. She was also a founding publisher of Quattro Books. Hausner lives in Toronto where she organizes the Soluble Fish lecture series.
A.F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, most recently, The Wren (2026), Great Silent Ballad (2024), As Far As You Know (2020) and The Sparrow (2018). Moritz served as the sixth Poet Laureate of Toronto, from March 2019 to May 2023. He also served for more than a decade as the Goldring Professor of the Arts and Society at Victoria University at the University of Toronto. Moritz has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He is the winner of the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize, the 2009 Griffin Prize, and the 2005 ReLit Award for poetry as well as a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award. An avid translator, Moritz’s most recent work is Eternities (2026), his translation of Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Eternidades. He has also translated the work of Spanish-language poets Ludwig Zeller and Gilberto Meza and is at work on a major translation of the French poet and philosopher, Jacques Ellul.

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