Almost Complete Poems - Hardcover

Stanley Moss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1609807278 ISBN 13: 9781609807276

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2016

Synopsis

Moss is oceanic: his poems rise, crest, crash, and rise again like waves. His voice echoes the boom of the Old Testament, the fluty trill of Greek mythology, and the gongs of Chinese rituals as he writes about love, nature, war, oppression, and the miracle of language. Here, all of his works are collected into a single volume for the first time.

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Review:

"Magisterial Almost Complete Poems 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 integrates into poetry of the highest order make it a continuing delight." -- Marilyn Hacker

"Open Almost Complete Poems 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 beginning. I love Stanley Moss's work. The pace, the strategy, the wit, the knowledge are astonishing. I want to add that of the generation that is gradually leaving us, those born in the mid and late 1920s, Bly, Levine, Kinnell, Rich, Kumen, O Hara, Cooper, Ferry, Ashbery, Merwin, Gilbert, Wright, myself, he has a prominent place. He loves donkeys. He owns Ted Roethke's raccoon coat. He is an original." - Gerald Stern

"As a whole, Stanley Moss s Almost Complete Poems is magnificent. These poems are gorgeous examples of energy coupled with style. These poems also embody beauty in the service of wisdom. Moss delights us with his sensual and tender imagination. His erudition is astounding. Moss is a poet s poet, and this volume is as necessary as air to the contemporary poetry scene." -- Sonja James, The Journal

"Moss, born in 1925, continues to write poems that combine wit, imagination, humane politics and a spiritual vision innocent of creed and dogma." --The Guardian

About the Author:

STANLEY MOSSwas born in 1925 in Woodhaven, NY. Age 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He kicked around Trinity College and Yale University, worked as a counter-spy for Local 65, sang in a band, worked at New Directions, for Botteghe Oscure in Rome, taught in Rome and Barcelona, is an Old Master dealer specializing in Spanish and Italian paintings, many of which he has discovered. Self-taught in art history, he has sold pictures to the world's major museums. He is publisher and editor at the Sheep Meadow Press. He is published in The New Yorker, TLS, and other reviews in countries where the English language is read. He is translated into German by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, into Chinese by Fu Hao, and into Spanish by Valerie Mejer. There are other translations in the works. He lives mostly on a farm in Duchess County, NY, and is a notorious dog and donkey lover. He is married to the forgiving Jane."

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1609807278
• ISBN 13: 9781609807276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 624