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Always Alwaysland
  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781644212011
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $35.00
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Always Alwaysland

New Poems

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28 June 2022
Paperback
5 July 2022
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A new collection from the great American poet in his 96th year.

A new collection from the great American poet in his 96th year.

Yea, though he walks through a certain valley, Stanley Moss has written Always Alwaysland in his 94th, 95th, and 96th years, a book of songs, devotion, beautiful, painful, useful truths, some work songs, spirituals, grand opera, hymns, chants to God and no God. After all, heartbeat is just versification. He stands alone among American poets. (In one poem that is political, Christ comes back to Earth, is lynched for singing Amazing Grace outside a white church). Read this book, take a chance, change your life for the better for the hell of it.
  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781644212011
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Stanley Moss

STANLEY MOSS was educated at Trinity College (Connecticut) and Yale University. He makes his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian old masters, and is the longtime publisher and editor of The Sheep Meadow Press, a nonprofit press devoted to poetry.

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Also by Stanley Moss

Not Yet
Act V Scene I
Abandoned Poems
Almost Complete Poems
God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike
New and Selected Poems 2006
Asleep in the Garden
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Praise for Always Alwaysland

"In Always Alwaysland it seems each poem has been searching for a master architect and wordsmith with deep feeling and practice to say it right. The profound and mischievous topics seem to be saying to a foreboding modern reality that Stanley Moss, a mature poet who dares to get the questions and the answers right, that the masterplan engages only true feeling in a state of playful wisdom." —Yusef Komunyakaa
 
Praise for NOT YET:
"I have been enjoying Stanley Moss’s work ever since his first collection The Wrong Angel finally reached England in 1969. He is one of those very rare poets who have got better and even better as they have grown older, as the experiences of life accumulate and are interrogated and blessed by them. Ever since Whitman, America has now and again produced a poet who can celebrate the abundance of life with joy and inquisitive detail, laying his soul out naked on the page. Moss is one of these. He is moving, surprising and funny, with a relaxed free style that can catch you off guard and tell you things that you didn’t know you half-knew. The new book is full of this infectious eagerness to catch things before they go, in a spirit of “not yet” that is not only a beautiful defiance but a kind of mysticism of the bodily life, an ambition to redeem the world before he is required to leave it." --John Fuller