Almost complete poems / Stanley Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Stanley, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xx, 594 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2016]

Summary:

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. He addresses the God of the Jews, of the Christians, and of the Muslims with awe and familiarity, and chants to lesser gods of his own invention. In every surprising poem, every song to life, beautiful life, Moss, by turns giddy and sorrowful, expresses a sacred sensuality and an earthy holiness. Or putting it another way: here is a mind operating in open air, unimpeded by fashion or forced thematic focus, profoundly catholic in perspective, at once accessible and erudite, inevitably compelling. All of which is to recommend Moss's ability to participate in and control thoroughly these poems while resisting the impulse to center himself in them. This differentiates his beautiful work from much contemporary breast-beating. Moss is an artist who embraces the possibilities of exultation, appreciation, reconciliation, of extreme tenderness. As such he lays down a commitment to a common, worldly morality toward which all beings gravitate.

Contents:

Mostly new poems (2016): Gratitude l. After night fell down the abyss 2. Second choice 3. Ridiculous 4. Just like that 5. December 21st 6. Number one

Dawn

Winter flowers

The thing written

God's brother

Delmore Schwartz

A visit to the Prado

Playing soldier

Woodhaven

Battle

Epitaph for a cook

My old car

An American hero

Ubuntu

SM

The Lord is mistaken

Evening song

Slip of the pen

Night flight

The auction

Idling

Reading half-awake

Letter to the butterflies

A purge without pity

An old marriage

Letter to Laren

Beyond

Poem

Wedding poem, alas

Rothko

Thanksgiving

Piss

A poem for all occasions

A hoot for Willis Barnstone

Duet

Pilgrim questions

Trump

Fallout

New born

The table

Wet paint

Unfallen

Spring morning

Time's bones

A poem called day. It's about time (2015) & No tear is commonplace (2013): Sunrise

Morning

The poem of self

July 4

Parable of the porcupine

Bright day

Parable of the book-man

Pax poetica

Paper swallow

Fantasy on a Goya drawing

Song of barbed wire

Death is a dream

56,000- year poem

Seems

A misfortune

Two arias

Revenge comedy

Burial of the gravedigger's daughter

What

Why. Noon

Elegy for Oliver Sacks

Pollen

Chrysalis

Winter

Letter to a poet

Sister poem

Coda

A refreshment

Visiting star

The carpenter

Drinking song

Letter to Dannie Abse

A kid in a "record crowd"

Spring poem for Christopher Middleton

Jerusalem wedding

Spoon

Poem of the pillow

Happy 87th birthday

Letter to a fish

The fish answers

Snowbound

Rope

Signifier

Pacemaker

Granite. Sunset

Night

I sit much with my dog

Hell

Cautionary tale

Song of Jerusalem neighbors

Affluent reader

The American dream

No tear is commonplace

December 8

Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and her child

Notices

Mocking gods

Now

Tightrope walking

Smiles

A metaphoric trap sprung

Mind

Christmas 2014

2 AM

Fathers

Psalm

The perfect democracy

The gambler

Monday. Eclipse

A rose

Album

Mr. Trouble

My mother's Memorial Day

Alexander Fu Musing

To Alexander who wants to be a cosmologist

To Alexander Fu on his beginning and 13th birthday

A red envelope

Children's song

Birthday wishes

Spit

Waltz

My good old shirt

Silence

Elegy for Elia

Gardens and unpunctuated poetry

Review

Tears

For good measure

A walk

Last meow

9 chocolates

The seagull

God breaketh not all men's hearts alike (2011) & Rejoicing (2009): Rejoicing

Nightingale

Song of alphabets

The bathers

In the rain

Wildflowers

A blind fisherman

Dangerous game

Tell me pretty maiden

The ring in my nose

Godmothers

Bone

To a stranger

Poets at lunch

Requiem

Big left toe

The man tree

Vanitas

Bad joke

Song of no God

Glutton

The icehouse and the pond

Munich 2010

Dogs

Listening to water

That morning

Autumn

Three songs for a single string

And there are African links/Licks in every language

Sand

On bees disappearing in America and Europe but not in Britain

Down river

The giant bathers

Cruelty and love

Sleep

Please

A wolf's song

On William Blake's drawing, "The Ghost of a Flea"

A glance at Turner

Capriccio

Clouds

Over drinks

I'll be back to you

The wild dogs of San Miguel de Allende

The unicorn

For my Godmother, twenty years later

The Messiah comes to Venice

Squeezing the lemon

The Hudson River

Anatomy lessons

February

Space poem

The grammarian

Onlyness

Seventh child

Eye

For Georgie

Chorus

Peace

Anonymous poet

Hotel room birthday party, Florence

Then

Satyr song

A satyr's complaint

Diary of a satyr. A History of Color (2003)

A history of color

Ransom

Heart work

To my friend born blind

Subway token

The cellist

The good shepherd

Song of an imaginary Arab

A fall

The celestial fox

The falcon

Judas

An argument with my wife

Grace

El sol

Tsunami song

China song

Beauty is not easy

Song for a lost river

Rainbows and circumcision

I have come to Jerusalem

Jerusalem: Easter, Passover

A guest in Jerusalem

Exchange of gifts

The louse

Work song

Babies

Praise

Near Machpelah/Hebron

To Ariel, my Arabist friend

A visit to the devil's museum in Kaunas

Ghetto theater, Vilnius, 1941

Chinese prayer

The startling

A riff for Sidney Bechet

The lost brother

Elegy for a 5,000-year-old tree

The last judgment

Some flowers

Romance

2002, alas

September 11th: a fable

A dentist

Wedding invitation

Song of imperfection

Good news song

Post-surgery song

Hot news, stale news

The film critic imaginaire

Facing the red sea

The family

It came down to this

The black maple

Dark clouds

How I got Ted Roethke's raccoon-skin coat

For Virginia on her 90th birthday

June 21st

Ovidian follies: l. Phaeton 2. Criton

Pope Pius XII announced he was visited by Christ on his sickbed

Prophecy I

Stowaway

Hermaphrodites in the garden

The blanket. Asleep in the garden (1998) & The intelligence of clouds (1989): Hannibal crossing the Alps

Annunciation

The poet

The swimmer

Letter to an unknown

Alexander Fu

Alexander's first battle

Alexander Fu to Stanley

Letter to Alexander Fu, seven years old

To Angelina, Alexander's cousin, whose Chinese name means happiness

April, Beijing

China poem

Dog

On trying to remember two Chinese poems

Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena

A poor woman

Allegory of the laughing philosopher

Lullaby

Centaur song

A visit to the Island of Jamaica

In front of a poster of Garibaldi

A gambler's story

To my son's wife on her wedding day

Stations

Allegory of smell

Allegory of evil in Italy

Lost daughter

Shoes

Song for Stanley Kunitz

In defense of a friend

Lowell

Krill

The battle

You and I

Song of introduction

Mon Pere, elegy for Paul Celan

The altar

Lines for a stammering Turkish poet

Daydream

The public gardens of Munich

The miscarriage

The inheritance

New moon

letter to Noah

The poor of Venice

The Hawk, the serpents and the cloud

The lace makers

The geographer

The debt

For Margaret

Ruse

The decadent poets of Kyoto

Following the saints. Skull of Adam (1979) & The wrong angel (1966): On seeing an x-ray of my head

God poem

Elegy for myself

Sailing from the United States

And now there is no place to look

The gift

Nicky

The peddler

Travels, Barcelona

Cloud song

Apocrypha

Night in the country

New York song

Shit

Vomit

Snot

An exchange of hats

Frog

Prophecy II

Along the Tiber: A Commentary of Antony and Cleopatra (1956-2002)

Backstage

Clown

Lost poem

Walking

Mecox Bay

I drove a hearse

The hangman's love song

Dulcie

The return

A valentine's day sketch of negro slaves, Jews in concentration camps, and unhappy lovers

Two fishermen

September evening

Roethke's pajamas

Winter in Vermont

Jane's grandmother

Panda song

Poem before marriage

Sweet questions

Potato song

Sign on the road

Prayer for Zero Mostel

The red fields

Plumage

Scarecrow

The good things

The meeting

Clams

Lot's daughter

Lot's son

Photography isn't art

Return from selling

Two riders

War ballad

Who are you?

The gentle things

The garden

Prayer

Celia, a ditty

On the occasion of Stanley Kauffmann's fiftieth birthday

Love's edge

For Uncle Lem

Scroll

Kangaroo

Old

The lesson of the birds

The valley

For James Wright

Lenin, Gorky and I

Song for concertina

Communique from an Army deserter, probably Italian

Off to the fair

An English defeat

Fact song

Voice

Che Guevara

Two minutes early

Before the fire

The branch

Castello Sermoneta

A dead nun's complaint after the dance

Death of a Spanish child

The scholar

Squall. Skipped-over early poems: Death in Paris

Grinder

On crossing the Atlantic

How suddenly exhausted

For loving is real

Rolling out of bed

The ships go nowhere

The longest journey

Visiting the Egyptian rooms of the Louvre

Bad day, good day

A song and dance for Aaron and Antonia

Peace talk

The wanton voyager

Love is confined

Two haystacks

Desertion

Man's wife

Lady of turquoise.

Notes:

Includes index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Poetry, Winner, 2016

Other Format:

Online version: Moss, Stanley. Almost complete poems.

ISBN:

9781609807276

1609807278

OCLC:

939994662

Publisher Number:

40026692533

99971047485