Death is a many-colored harlequin,' Stanley Moss addirmed on his ninety-second birthday. Rosanna Warren writes of his latest poems, 'Undaunted, outrageously alive, Moss flaunts more colors than the Grim Reaper ever dreamed of, laughs in his face, rhy...

Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.

Stanley Moss dedicates these poems "to departed friends: human, canine, arboreal, avian", setting the tone for a collection that is celebratory, occasional, salutatory. Striking out at "Sunrise", the poems move through sections for "Noon", "Sunset",...

The poems collected in "No Tear is Commonplace" stage a passionate, curious, and often combative relationship with the world and the forces that shape human life and death. Stanley Moss's range is wide: his poetry recalls the "Adirondack wilderness"...

"Rejoicing" is a magnificent, celebratory gathering of Stanley Moss's poetry from six decades. He is one of America's finest poets and this collection demonstrates why. Marilyn Hacker wrote of his work, "Its verbal generosity and bravura, its humanit...

Many tensions are at work in the playfully unconstrained poems of Stanley Moss: ordinary and mythical lives, the political and the personal, high art and low comedy intermingle, achieving an effect that is often surreal and always striking. Here God...

Urbane and cosmopolitan, Stanley Moss's poems are the work of a writer once described as "a citizen of the world, both past and present, one who seems to have been everywhere and missed nothing". In strong lyrics and searching narratives he explores...

"The Intelligence of Clouds" is Stanley Moss's third collection of poems. "We must be grateful to the Anvil Press for importing Stanley Moss", wrote John Fuller of his first, "The Wrong Angel" (1969). Reviewing "Skull of Adam" (1979) in Poetry Review...

This first book of poems was originally published in New York in 1966; the English edition appeared in 1969.