New and Selected Poems 2006 - Softcover

Moss, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583227547 ISBN 13: 9781583227541

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2006

Synopsis

"The poetry of the ages is an argument with God, so it is said; but not many poets attempt it today. Stanley Moss does. In many voices, in lines rugged yet eloquent, in different places and with various leanings, he sings us songs of his unbelievable belief, his unlovable lovesongs of anguish, songs any of us would sing if we could. I find them disconcerting and extraordinarily moving." --John Ashberry

About this title

About the Author:

Born in New York City, STANLEY MOSS was 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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Long admired for his stewardship of Sheep Meadow Press, Moss has also earned acclaim for his own lyrical work, whose long-lined eloquence mixes autobiographical reflections, tributes to friends and places, and a temperate, self-assured humor. Though Moss's last volume, The History of Color (2003), was also a new-and-selected, this slightly slimmer gathering holds enough new poems to merit a look of its own: advancing years, the death of friends (especially eminent poets, such as Stanley Kunitz), Jewish history and Jewish liturgy provide recurrent themes for Moss's latest works, with which the volume (mostly) opens. (Moss's perhaps confusing arrangement offers new work first, the oldest last, "with exceptions" so he can group poems with similar subjects.) There are travels overseas—to Jerusalem and Israel, in particular, but also to Italy, China, Germany—and voyages backward in time, as Moss reanimates Ovidian themes. His best poems, however, are less about ethnic or religious heritage than about crafts and arts undervalued in their own time: "The Lace Makers," for example, and the new "An American Hero," which tells the startling story of James Hewlett, who "joined a Shakespeare theater of ex-slaves." (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1583227547
• ISBN 13: 9781583227541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256