A History of Color: New and Selected Poems

by Stanley Moss

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583224858
• ISBN13: 9781583224854
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Emphasizing intellectual exploration and contemplation

Stanley Moss' A History Of Color is an impressively presented and highly recommended poetry anthology emphasizing intellectual exploration and contemplation. Subtle shifts of mood distinguish the free-verse reflections on the absurdities and contradictions of life. The Return: It was justice to see her nude haunches/backing toward me again after the years,/familiar as water after long thirst./Now like a stream she is, and I can lie beside/running my hand over the waters, or sleep;/but the water is colder, the gullies darker,/the rapids that threw me down have shallowed;/I can walk across.