Almost Complete Poems - Softcover

Stanley Moss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784103160 ISBN 13: 9781784103163

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.

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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

'Moss is the kind of poet who tries to find words that help us live, that tell us directly how to laugh down folly or take courage.' --New York Times reviews US edition of Almost Complete Poems

About the Author:

Stanley Moss was born in New York City in 1925. He is the author of several collections of poetry, and is the editor and publisher of The Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit press devoted to poetry. He makes his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian old masters, and lives in Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784103160
• ISBN 13: 9781784103163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496