Vibrant new poems from the award-winning nonagenarian poet who Rosanna Warren calls "Undaunted, outrageously alive..."
Born in New York City,STANLEY MOSSwas educated at Trinity College and Yale University. He has been writing poetry for over a half-century. In addition, Moss is a private art dealer specializing in Italian and Spanish old masters, as well as the publisher and editor of The Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit publishing house devoted to poetry. Moss lives in Clintondale and River Corners, New York.
"Open Act V, Scene I or any of Stanley Moss's books anywhere, and
you will come shockingly upon wisdom and beauty, a diversity of
styles--a unity of voice, a voice that was there since the
begninning. I love Stanley Moss's work. The pace, the strategy, the
wit, the knowledge are astonishing. Of the generation that is
gradually leaving us, those born in the mid- and late-1920s, he has
a prominent place. He loves donkeys. He owns Ted Roethke's raccoon
coat. He is an original."
—Gerald Stern
"Magisterial. . . this book is magnificent. I've read it several
times with greater and greater pleasure. Its verbal generosity and
bravura, its humanity, the quality and quantity of information
which it generates into poetry of the highest order make it a
continuing delight."
—Marilyn Hacker
"I've loved Stanley's poems since I first encountered a poem of his
in Poetry magazine in John Berryman's office when I was
nineteen."
—W.S. Merwin
"These are poems made of experience and high intellect. From the
first measured trope to the last haunting moment, in which God
equals a question, these poems curse and sing about the blessings
and tragedies of personal life. Embracing the larger world, they're
also hardy psalms that make me say, Thanks for this important,
gutsy collection."
—Yusef Komunyakaa
"Like any sensible person, I've been reading Stanley Moss's poetry
for many years, during which time the force of his work—its
liveliness, its swerves and hilarity, the rich religious, artistic,
and literary references, and its vivid, sensual worldliness—has
never diminished an iota. In our epoch of turmoil, crisis, and
grief, I find Moss's poetry still, always, brings me a little
closer to happiness."
—Forrest Gander
"Moss rewrites the received idea of religion and the religious
poet: his psalms may be exactly the new songs needed to illuminate
sombre new times."
—Carol Rumens, The Guardian
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