Asleep in the Garden New and Selected Poems

by MOSS, STANLEY

• ISBN13: 9781888363630
• ISBN10: 1888363630
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-09
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

Formerly a Rockefeller fellow in poetry and poetry editor of New American Review, Stanley Moss is among the best kept secrets of American poetry today. Asleep in the Garden includes 97 poems, many of which have appeared in The New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement (London), the New York Times, The New Republic, Dissent, Tikkun, and Poetry International.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

I.	15	(56)
The Bathers	15	(2)
Fool	17	(2)
The Louse	19	(1)
Near Machpela/Hebron	20	(1)
A Guest in Jerusalem	21	(1)
The Swimmer	22	(1)
Psalm	23	(1)
Song of Alphabets	24	(2)
Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet	26	(3)
The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud	29	(1)
Mon Pere	30	(3)
The First Days of March	33	(1)
Clocks	34	(2)
Dog	36	(1)
Lost Daughter	37	(1)
The Inheritance	38	(2)
Lullaby for Twins	40	(1)
Letter to Noah	41	(1)
New Moon	42	(1)
Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena	43	(1)
The Miscarriage	44	(2)
Daydream	46	(1)
Ruse	47	(1)
The Decadent Poets of Kyoto	48	(2)
Hannibal Crossing the Alps	50	(1)
Letter to the Butterflies	51	(2)
Rainbows and Circumcision	53	(2)
Song of Imperfection	55	(1)
The Lace Makers	56	(2)
For Margaret	58	(2)
Clouds	60	(1)
The Lesson of the Birds	61	(1)
Centaur Song	62	(1)
The Geographer	63	(2)
A Visit to Kaunas	65	(1)
Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941	66	(1)
The Poet	67	(4)
II.	71	(52)
The Debt	71	(3)
Song of Introduction	74	(1)
I Have Come to Jerusalem	75	(1)
Song of Imaginary Arabs	76	(1)
Following the Saints	77	(1)
To Ariel, My Arabist Friend	78	(1)
Exchange of Gifts	79	(1)
Work Song	80	(1)
The Battle	81	(1)
You and I	82	(1)
The Altar	83	(1)
Jerusalem, Easter	84	(3)
In Front of a Poster of Garibaldi	87	(3)
Elegy for Myself	90	(1)
For James Wright	91	(1)
The Gift	92	(2)
Lowell	94	(1)
New York Song	95	(2)
Judas	97	(1)
Lenin, Gorky and I	98	(2)
The Poor ofVenice	100	(1)
Allegory of Evil in Italy	101	(1)
Allegory of Smell	102	(1)
Lullaby	103	(1)
Krill	104	(1)
The Public Gardens of Munich	105	(2)
Some Flowers	107	(1)
The Proof	108	(1)
Three Marys	109	(2)
On Trying to Remember Two Chinese Poems	111	(2)
April, Beijing	113	(2)
China Sonnet	115	(1)
Walking	116	(7)
III.	123
On Seeing an X-ray of My Head	123	(1)
Apocrypha	124	(2)
Black Dog	126	(1)
The Meeting	127	(1)
Potato Song	128	(1)
Poem Before Marriage	129	(1)
Kangaroo	130	(1)
Two Fishermen	131	(1)
Old Fisherman	132	(1)
Prayer	133	(1)
A Sketch of Slaves, Jews in Concentration Camps, and Unhappy Lovers	134	(1)
Photography Isn't Art	135	(2)
Jane's Grandmother	137	(1)
The Return	138	(1)
Old	139	(1)
The Valley	140	(1)
Nicky	141	(1)
Frog	142	(1)
War Ballad	143	(1)
Vomit	144	(2)
Saint Merde	146	(1)
An Exchange of Hats	147	(2)
Clams	149	(1)
Lot's Son	150	(1)
Morning	151	(1)
Prayer for Zero Mostel	152	(1)
Sailing from the United States	153	(1)
The Hangman's Love Song	154	(1)
Sign on the Road	155	(2)
Squall	157	(1)
God Poem	158