
A History of Color
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A History of Color: New and Collected Poems by Stanley Moss is the first one-volume, complete edition of the poetry of this important living American poet. A History of Color proposes poetry that is made to be useful. Moss is our leading psalmist. Metaphors for wonder abound, his language one of sorrow and exaltation.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- Contents
- I. A History of Color
- A History of Color
- To My Friend Born Blind
- Subway Token
- The Blanket
- The Louse
- The Falcon
- Babies
- Praise
- Chinese Prayer
- Hermaphrodites in the Garden
- Shoes
- Beauty is Not Easy
- Annunciation
- Creed
- Prophecy
- The Last Judgment
- A Refreshment
- The Film Critic Imaginaire
- Hot News, Stale News
- The Black Maple
- Stowaway
- Heart Work
- The Celestial Fox
- Post-Surgery Song
- September 11: A Fable
- The Watch
- For Virginia on her 90th Birthday
- The Staff
- Letter to an Unknown
- Alexander's First Battle
- Alexander Fu
- A Riff for Sidney Bechet
- Dark Clouds
- 2002, Alas
- An Argument
- June 21st
- Psalm
- II. Poems from Asleep in the Garden (1997) and The Intelligence of Clouds (1989)
- The Bathers
- Song of Alphabets
- Hannibal Crossing the Alps
- For Margaret
- Rainbows and Circumcision
- Letter to the Butterflies
- Dog
- The Decadent Poets of Kyoto
- The Inheritance
- The Swimmer
- The Lace Makers
- Lost Daughter
- The Lesson of the Birds
- Clouds
- I have Come to Jerusalem
- Near Machpela/Hebron
- A Guest in Jerusalem
- Jerusalem: Easter, Passover
- Work Song
- Exchange of Gifts
- Song of an Imaginary Arab
- To Ariel, My Arabist Friend
- A Visit to Kaunas
- Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941
- Centaur Song
- Homing
- The Geographer
- Clocks
- Clown
- Song of Introduction
- The Battle
- You and I
- The Altar
- In Front of a Poster of Garibaldi
- Lenin, Gorky and I
- For James Wright
- Song for Stanley Kunitz
- Lowell
- New York Songs
- Elegy for Myself
- The Poor of Venice
- Song of Imperfection
- The Poet
- Allegory of Evil in Italy
- The Startling
- Allegory of Smell
- Lullaby
- Krill
- The Public Gardens of Munich
- Mon Père
- Some Flowers
- Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet
- Daydream
- Fool
- The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud
- Lullaby for Twins
- Letter to Noah
- New Moon
- The Miscarriage
- Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena
- Panda Song
- A Gambler's Story
- Judas
- The Proof
- Three Marys
- Amphora
- On Trying to Remember Two Chinese Poems
- April, Beijing
- China Sonnet
- Walking
- The Debt
- III. Poems from Skull of Adam (1979) and The Wrong Angel (1966)
- On Seeing an X-Ray of my Head
- Uncertain Weather
- Black Dog
- The Meeting
- The Improvement
- Potato Song
- Fishing in the Evening
- Prayer
- A Sketch of Slaves, Jews in Concentration Camps and Unhappy Lovers
- Kangaroo
- The Return
- The Gift
- Poem Before Marriage
- Lovers
- The Valley
- Jane's Grandmother
- Frog
- Apocrypha
- Morning
- Old
- Photography Isn't Art
- Nicky
- War Ballad
- Vomit
- Saint Merde
- Snot
- An Exchange of Hats
- Clams
- Lot's Son
- Prayer for an Actor
- Sailing from the United States
- Pastoral
- Winter in Vermont
- The Hangman's Love Song
- Castello di Sermonetta
- Along the Tiber: A Commentary
- Antony With Cleopatra
- Enobarbus Plans for Cleopatra
- Charmian to Enobarbus
- Fulvia to Cleopatra: A First Wife's Complaint
- Another Reply for Pompey
- Return to Rome
- Sign on the Road
- Plumage
- The Gentle Things
- Return from Selling
- For Doctor Grubin
- Two Fishermen
- The Red Fields
- Squall
- Wedding Invitation
- God Poem
- About the Author
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