New and Selected Poems 2006

by Moss, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9781583227541
• ISBN10: 1583227547
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-07
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

The latest collection from America's most important living poet, Stanley Moss.

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

1.
Song Of Alphabets	17	(2)
Elegy For The Ancient Tree	19	(2)
Ransom	21	(1)
Psalm	22	(1)
The Lost Brother	23	(1)
Song Of An Imaginary Arab	24	(2)
An American Hero	26	(3)
The Good Shepherd	29	(1)
Hermaphrodites In The Garden	30	(2)
Song Of Incivility	32	(1)
The Wild Dogs Of San Miguel De Allende	33	(1)
The Cellist	34	(1)
Clouds	35	(1)
To My Friend Born Blind	36	(1)
The Unicorn	37	(1)
Proof	38	(1)
Grace	39	(1)
Over Drinks	40	(1)
A Fall	41	(2)
How I Got Ted Roethke's Raccoon-Skin Coat	43	(1)
The Bathers	44	(2)
Autumn	46	(1)
Satyr Songs	47	(4)
A Satyr's Complaint	51	(2)
The Family	53	(2)
Tsunami Song	55	(1)
From Ovidian Follies: Criton	56	(4)
El Sol	60	(1)
From Ovidian Follies: Phaeton	61	(5)
Song For A Lost River	66	(1)
Anniversary Song	67	(1)
Letter To Dannie Abse On The Death Of His Wife	68	(1)
For My Godmother, Twenty Years Later	69	(1)
Romance	70	(1)
In The Rain	71	(4)
2.
A History Of Color	75	(6)
The Blanket	81	(1)
Subway Token	82	(1)
The Poet	83	(1)
Rainbows And Circumcision	84	(2)
A Visit To Kaunas	86	(1)
I Have Come To Jerusalem	87	(1)
A Guest In Jerusalem	88	(1)
Jerusalem: Easter, Passover	89	(3)
Exchange Of Gifts	92	(1)
Work Song	93	(2)
The Louse	95	(1)
Near Machpelah/Hebron	96	(1)
Babies	97	(2)
Praise	99	(2)
Dog	101	(1)
Creed	102	(1)
A Refreshment	103	(1)
Letter To The Butterflies	104	(2)
Chinese Prayer	106	(1)
Heart Work	107	(2)
Post-Surgery Song	109	(1)
For Margaret	110	(2)
The Swimmer	112	(1)
Clocks	113	(2)
Apocrypha	115	(2)
Lost Daughter	117	(1)
In Front Of A Poster Of Garibaldi	118	(3)
Allegory Of Evil In Italy	121	(1)
The Falcon	122	(2)
Wedding Invitation	124	(1)
The Poor Of Venice	125	(1)
Song of Imperfection	126	(1)
The Lace Makers	127	(4)
3.
Beauty Is Not Easy	131	(1)
Hannibal Crossing The Alps	132	(1)
June 21st	133	(1)
Annunciation	134	(1)
Prophecy	135	(1)
Stowaway	136	(1)
Shoes	137	(1)
The Last Judgment	138	(2)
Nicky	140	(1)
September 11th: A Fable	141	(1)
2002, Alas	142	(1)
Working-Class Clouds	143	(1)
A Riff For Sidney Bechet	144	(1)
Letter To An Unknown	145	(1)
Alexander's First Battle	146	(1)
Alexander Fu	147	(1)
Alexander Fu to Stanley	148	(1)
For James Wright	149	(2)
Song For Stanley Kunitz	151	(2)
Lowell	153	(1)
Lenin, Gorky And I	154	(2)
Krill	156	(1)
The Battle	157	(1)
You And I	158	(1)
Song Of Introduction	159	(1)
The Altar	160	(1)
Mon Pere	161	(3)
Lines For A Stammering Turkish Poet	164	(3)
Daydream	167	(1)
The Public Gardens Of Munich	168	(2)
Frog	170	(1)
The Decadent Poets Of Kyoto	171	(2)
The Miscarriage	173	(2)
Three Marys	175	(2)
The Startling	177	(1)
On Seeing An X-Ray Of My Head	178	(1)
Uncertain Weather	179	(2)
Two Fishermen	181	(1)
The Inheritance	182	(2)
New York Songs	184	(2)
New Moon	186	(1)
Letter To Noah	187	(1)
Lot's Son	188	(1)
Vomit	189	(2)
Saint Merde	191	(1)
Snot	192	(1)
An Exchange Of Hats	193	(2)
The Hawk, The Serpent And The Cloud	195	(4)
4.
Sailing From The United States	199	(1)
Clown	200	(2)
Elegy For Myself	202	(1)
Dulcie	203	(1)
A Sketch of Slaves, Prisoners in Concentration Camps and Unhappy Lovers	204	(1)
China Sonnet	205	(1)
April, Beijing	206	(2)
On Trying To Remember Two Chinese Poems	208	(2)
The Celestial Fox	210	(1)
The Black Maple	211	(1)
Poem Before Marriage	212	(1)
Morning	213	(1)
Lovers	214	(1)
Photography Isn't Art	215	(2)
Prayer For Zero Mostel	217	(1)
The Meeting	218	(1)
Sign On The Road	219	(2)
Squall	221	(1)
The Gentle Things	222	(1)
Potato Song	223	(1)
Walking	224	(3)
Prayer	227	(1)
Kangaroo	228	(1)
The Lesson Of The Birds	229	(1)
Fool	230	(1)
The Debt	231	(3)
God Poem	234