Goddamned Selected Poems
A collection of new and selected poems about life, love, and growing older.
A couple of years ago Stanley Moss renewed his driver's license. Now in his late 90s, his license runs to his 104th year. He has produced such an immense volume of work in his long life that it seemed necessary for his readers, old and new, to essentialise this mass of work into a portable, liftable single collection of highlights, which these 220 pages represent. It has been hard to confine him to this limiting measure because he still, every week and sometimes every day, produces a wholly new poem, surprising his editor and also, always, himself. As he says in "The Ocean Slaps my Face".
A couple of years ago Stanley Moss renewed his driver's license. Now in his late 90s, his license runs to his 104th year. He has produced such an immense volume of work in his long life that it seemed necessary for his readers, old and new, to essentialise this mass of work into a portable, liftable single collection of highlights, which these 220 pages represent. It has been hard to confine him to this limiting measure because he still, every week and sometimes every day, produces a wholly new poem, surprising his editor and also, always, himself. As he says in "The Ocean Slaps my Face".
About the author
Stanley Moss is an American poet, editor, publisher and art dealer. He is the founder of the literary imprint Sheep Meadow Press.