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No Tear is CommonplaceStanley Moss
Categories: 21st Century, American
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Aug 2013) 9781847772503 Out of Stock
Old Fool, I have no desire for the afterlife.
I want to stay here with You, to hang around with Your trees, Your animals and my wife. from ‘Why’
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’ of childhood summers, imagines a young Christ learning carpentry, reflects on the tragedies of twentieth-century Europe. What shines through is the poet’s commitment to the fullness of human experience in the here-and-now.
Sunrise – Morning Paper Swallow Nightingale Tell Me Pretty Maiden No Tear is Commonplace Why What Parable of the Porcupine Capriccio History Sand To a Stranger Bright Day That Morning 12 Noon Chorus The Man Tree The American Dream Revenge Comedy Letter to a Fish The Fish Answers December 8 Please Drinking Song Smiles Granite Alexander Fu Musing / China Song Elegy for the Poet Reetika Vazirani and her Child On William Blake’s Drawing, ‘The Ghost of a Flea’ A Glance at Turner Requiem Dogs Munich 2010 For Georgie Sunset – Night Poem Anatomy Lessons February Listening to Water And there are African Links/Licks in Every Language Letter to Dannie Abse The Hudson River Down River The Grammarian Affluent Reader Space Poem Onlyness Eye Backstage For Uncle Lem Signifier Silent Poem The Carpenter Squeezing the Lemon Pollen Psalm Index of Titles and First Lines
'Unthinkable questions [...], but when he formulates them they take on the quiet urgency of common daylight.'
John Ashbery 'It is time to celebrate the singular beauty and power of Stanley Moss’s poetry… The damp genius of mortality presides.' Stanley Kunitz '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 or the direct authenticity of the language, for I had come to expect those in his poems. The surprise arose from the nature of his poetry itself, and from the mystery that his poems confront and embody, which makes them both intense and memorable.' W.S. Merwin Praise for Stanley Moss 'Easily and unaffectedly sharing his life, times and knowledge of the culture, history and ancient history of three continents, Moss is good, thought-provoking company' William Wootten, The Times Literary Supplement 'What Moss gives is a small world in which the reader's imagination is allowed to open out and live within the poem.' Ian Pople, The High Window 'Magisterial... God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike is magnificent. I've read it several times with greater and greater pleasure. Its verbal generosity and bravura, its humanity, the quality and quantity of information which it integrates into poetry of the highest order make it a continuing delight.' Marilyn Hacker ''Death is a many-colored harlequin', asserts Stanley Moss on his 92nd birthday. Undaunted, outrageously alive, Moss in these poems flaunts more colors than the Grim Reaper ever dreamed of, laughs in his face, rhymes with abandon, makes a joyful noise unto the Lord, and struts with Baudelaire. This is a book to hold onto for dear life.' Rosanna Warren '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 'This is a book made of experience and high intellect. ... these poems curse and sing about the blessings and tragedies of personal life ... an important, gutsy collection.' Yusef Komunyakaa 'I've loved Stanley's poems since I first encountered a poem of his in Poetry magazine in John Berryman’s office when I was nineteen.' W. €‰S. Merwin 'Unthinkable questions, but when he formulates them they take on the quiet urgency of common daylight.' John Ashbery |
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