- Published: 8 December 2020
- ISBN: 9781644210307
- Imprint: Seven Stories Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $49.99
Act V Scene I
Poems
- Published: 8 December 2020
- ISBN: 9781644210307
- Imprint: Seven Stories Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $49.99
"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 is an original."--Gerald Stern
Moss tries to write a kind of poetry that his American juniors rarely attempt: the first-person record of wisdom, jocular or weighty, gained in a moment or a lifetime, unguarded, openhearted, profuse. To read him at length is to encounter stacks of memories, anecdotes and would-be proverbs..." --Stephen Burt, New York Times Book Review
"I love Stanley Moss's poetry. Again and again, coming upon a poem of Stanley Moss's I have had the feeling of being taken by surprise, not simply by the eloquence and the direct authenticity of the language, for I have come to expect those in his poems. The surprise comes from the nature of his poetry itself, and from the mystery that his poems confront and embody." --W.S. Merwin