
Almost Complete Poems
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'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
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Moss worked as an editor at New Directions, New American Library, Bookweek, New York Herald Tribune and New American Review. In 1977, he founded Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit publishing company that publishes poetry and belles lettres. He made his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian Old Masters. He lived in Clinton Corners, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Mostly New Poems 2016
- Gratitude
- I. AFTER NIGHT FELL DOWN THE ABYSS
- II. SECOND CHOICE
- III. RIDICULOUS
- IV. JUST LIKE THAT
- V. DECEMBER 21ST
- VI. 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
- S M
- 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
- Sunrise-Morning
- THE POEM OF SELF
- JULY 4
- PARABLE OF THE PORCUPINE
- BRIGHT DAY
- PARABLE OF THE BOOK-MAN
- PAX POETICA
- PAPER SWALLOW
- SONG OF BARBED WIRE
- FANTASY ON A GOYA DRAWING
- 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 NEIGHBOURS
- 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
- A METAPHORIC TRAP SPRUNG
- SMILES
- 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
- 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
- Song of No God
- Vanitas
- Bad Joke
- Glutton
- The Icehouse and the Pond
- Munich 2010
- Dogs
- Listening to Water
- That Morning
- Autumn
- Three Songs for a Single String
- On Bees Disappearing in America and Europe but Not in Britain
- Sand
- Down River
- And There are African Links/Licks in Every Language
- 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 at 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 Colour 2003
- A History of Colour
- 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 Theatre, 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
- I. PHAETON
- II. 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
- 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 Defence of a Friend
- Lowell
- Krill
- The Battle
- You and I
- Song of Introduction
- Mon Père, 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
- 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 on Antony and Cleopatra (1956-2002)
- Backstage
- Clown
- Lost Poem
- Walking
- Mecox Bay
- I Drive 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 Pyjamas
- 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
- Morning
- Return from Selling
- Two Riders
- War Ballad
- Who Are You?
- The Gentle Things
- The Garden
- Prayer
- Love's Edge
- On the Occasion of Stanley Kauffmann's Fiftieth Birthday
- Celia, a Ditty
- For Uncle Lem
- Scroll
- Kangaroo
- Old
- The Lesson of the Birds
- The Valley
- For James Wright
- Lenin, Gorky and I
- Song for Concertina
- Communiqué 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
- Uncollected Early Poems 1948-1951
- 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
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Titles & First Lines
- About the Author
- Also by Stanley Moss from Carcanet Press
- Copyright
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