A History of Color: New and Selected PoemsSeven Stories Press, 2003 M05 6 - 248 páginas Few poets today, even very good ones, write lines, as Stanley Moss does, that are so exquisitely crafted you cannot help but remember them. "What is heaven but the history of color," begins the new long poem after which this book is named. "We know at ninety sometimes it aches to sing," begins another poem, for a woman upon her ninetieth birthday. In the hands of this master, "Ah who art in heaven," transmigrates to the quieting "ah, ah, baby." And here is Moss in an early poem: "I’ve always had a preference / for politics you could sing / on the stage of the Scala," ending that poem with words attributed to Lincoln: "I don’t know what the soul is, / but whatever it is, I know it can humble itself." 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. |
Contenido
A History Of Color | 3 |
To My Friend Born Blind | 10 |
Subway Token | 11 |
The Blanket | 12 |
The Louse | 13 |
The Falcon | 14 |
Babies | 16 |
Praise | 18 |
The Startling | 120 |
Allegory Of Smell | 121 |
Lullaby | 122 |
Krill | 123 |
The Public Gardens Of Munich | 124 |
Mon Pere | 126 |
Some Flowers | 129 |
Lines For A Stammering Turkish Poet | 130 |
Chinese Prayer | 20 |
Hermaphrodites In The Garden | 21 |
Shoes | 23 |
Beauty Is Not Easy | 24 |
Annunciation | 25 |
Creed | 26 |
Prophecy | 27 |
The Last Judgment | 28 |
A Refreshment | 30 |
The Film Critic Imaginaire | 31 |
Hot News Stale News | 32 |
The Black Maple | 33 |
Stowaway | 34 |
Heart Work | 35 |
The Celestial Fox | 37 |
PostSurgery Song | 38 |
A Fable | 39 |
The Watch | 40 |
For Virginia On Her 90th Birthday | 41 |
The Staff | 42 |
Letter To An Unknown | 43 |
Alexanders First Battle | 44 |
Alexander Fu | 45 |
A Riff For Sidney Bechet | 46 |
Dark Clouds | 47 |
2002 Alas | 48 |
An Argument | 49 |
June 21st | 50 |
Psalm | 51 |
The Bathers | 55 |
Song Of Alphabets | 57 |
Hannibal Crossing The Alps | 59 |
For Margaret | 60 |
Rainbows And Circumcision | 62 |
Letter To The Butterflies | 64 |
Dog | 66 |
The Decadent Poets Of Kyoto | 67 |
The Inheritance | 69 |
The Swimmer | 71 |
The Lace Makers | 72 |
Lost Daughter | 74 |
The Lesson Of The Birds | 75 |
Clouds | 76 |
I Have Come To Jerusalem | 77 |
Near MachpelaHebron | 78 |
A Guest In Jerusalem | 79 |
Easter Passover | 80 |
Work Song | 83 |
Exchange Of Gifts | 85 |
Song Of An Imaginary Arab | 86 |
To Ariel My Arabist Friend | 88 |
A Visit To Kaunas | 89 |
Ghetto Theater Vilnius 1941 | 90 |
Centaur Song | 91 |
Homing | 92 |
The Geographer | 93 |
Clocks | 95 |
Clown | 97 |
Song Of Introduction | 99 |
The Battle | 100 |
You and I | 101 |
The Altar | 102 |
In Front Of A Poster Of Graibaldi | 103 |
Lenin Gorky And I | 106 |
For James Wright | 108 |
Song For Stanley Kunitz | 110 |
Lowell | 112 |
New York Songs | 113 |
Elegy For Myself | 115 |
The Poor Of Venice | 116 |
Song Of Imperfection | 117 |
The Poet | 118 |
Allegory Of Evil In Italy | 119 |
Daydream | 133 |
Fool | 134 |
The Hawk The Serpents And The Cloud | 135 |
Lullaby For Twins | 136 |
Letter To Noah | 137 |
New Moon | 138 |
The Miscarriage | 139 |
Postcard To Walt Whitman From Siena | 141 |
Panda Song | 142 |
A Gamblers Story | 143 |
Judas | 144 |
The Proof | 145 |
Three Marys | 146 |
Amphora | 148 |
On Trying To Remember Two Chinese Poems | 149 |
April Beijing | 151 |
China Sonnet | 153 |
Walking | 154 |
The Debt | 157 |
On Seeing An XRay Of My Head | 163 |
Uncertain Weather | 164 |
Black Dog | 166 |
The Meeting | 167 |
The Improvement | 168 |
Potato Song | 169 |
Fishing In The Evening | 170 |
Prayer | 171 |
A Sketch Of Slaves Jews In Concentration Camps And Unhappy Lovers | 172 |
Kangaroo | 173 |
The Return | 174 |
The Gift | 175 |
Poem Before Marriage | 176 |
Lovers | 177 |
The Valley | 178 |
Janes Grandmother | 179 |
Frog | 180 |
Apocrypha | 181 |
Morning | 183 |
Old | 184 |
Photography Isnt Art | 185 |
Nicky | 187 |
War Ballad | 188 |
Vomit | 189 |
Saint Merde | 191 |
Snot | 192 |
An Exchange Of Hats | 193 |
Clams | 195 |
Lots Son | 196 |
Prayer For An Actor | 197 |
Sailing From The United States | 198 |
Pastoral | 199 |
Winter In Vermont | 200 |
The Hangmans Love Song | 201 |
Castello Di Sermonetta | 202 |
Antony With Cleopatra | 204 |
Enobarbus Plans For Cleopatra | 205 |
Charmian To Enobarbus | 206 |
A First Wifes Complaint | 207 |
Another Reply For Pompey | 209 |
Return To Rome | 210 |
Sign On The Road | 211 |
Plumage | 213 |
The Gentle Things | 214 |
Return From Selling | 215 |
For Doctor Grubin | 216 |
Two Fishermen | 217 |
The Red Fields | 218 |
Squall | 219 |
Wedding Invitation | 220 |
God Poem | 221 |
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About the Author | 234 |
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