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Songs of Imperfection
Stanley Moss
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Description for Songs of Imperfection
Paperback. A collection of poems that feature ordinary and mythical lives, and the political and the personal. Here, God and Death are not matters for detached speculation but constant and vivid presences, whether centre-stage or waiting in the wings. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
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 and Death are not matters for detached speculation but constant and vivid presences, whether centre-stage or waiting in the wings. An engagement with history is brought to bear on legend and on current affairs: a poem addressing 9/11 summons up the figure of Walt Whitman, whose exuberance and resolute faith in humanity Moss echoes throughout the book. Serious and optimistic, ... Read more
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 and Death are not matters for detached speculation but constant and vivid presences, whether centre-stage or waiting in the wings. An engagement with history is brought to bear on legend and on current affairs: a poem addressing 9/11 summons up the figure of Walt Whitman, whose exuberance and resolute faith in humanity Moss echoes throughout the book. Serious and optimistic, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856463662
SKU
V9780856463662
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99-22
About Stanley Moss
Stanley Moss was born in New York City. He was educated at Trinity College and Yale University. He makes his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian old masters, and is the publisher and editor of The Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit press devoted to poetry.
Reviews for Songs of Imperfection
'As neither a sentimentalist nor an ironist but a Shelleyan humanist, Stanley Moss... deserves much more critical attention'J T Barbarese, The New York Times