Asleep in the Garden New and Selected Poems

Formerly a Rockefeller fellow in poetry and poetry editor of New American Review, Stanley Moss is among the best kept secrets of American poetry today. Asleep in the Garden includes 97 poems, many of which have appeared in The New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement (London), the New York Times, The New Republic, Dissent, Tikkun, and Poetry International.

Born in New York City, STANLEY MOSS was educated at Trinity College and Yale University. He has been writing poetry for over a half-century. In addition, Moss is a private art dealer specializing in Italian and Spanish old masters, as well as the publisher and editor of The Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit publishing house devoted to poetry. Moss lives in Clintondale and River Corners, New York.

I.

15

(56)

The Bathers

15

(2)

Fool

17

(2)

The Louse

19

(1)

Near Machpela/Hebron

20

(1)

A Guest in Jerusalem

21

(1)

The Swimmer

22

(1)

Psalm

23

(1)

Song of Alphabets

24

(2)

Lines for a Stammering Turkish Poet

26

(3)

The Hawk, the Serpents and the Cloud

29

(1)

Mon Pere

30

(3)

The First Days of March

33

(1)

Clocks

34

(2)

Dog

36

(1)

Lost Daughter

37

(1)

The Inheritance

38

(2)

Lullaby for Twins

40

(1)

Letter to Noah

41

(1)

New Moon

42

(1)

Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena

43

(1)

The Miscarriage

44

(2)

Daydream

46

(1)

Ruse

47

(1)

The Decadent Poets of Kyoto

48

(2)

Hannibal Crossing the Alps

50

(1)

Letter to the Butterflies

51

(2)

Rainbows and Circumcision

53

(2)

Song of Imperfection

55

(1)

The Lace Makers

56

(2)

For Margaret

58

(2)

Clouds

60

(1)

The Lesson of the Birds

61

(1)

Centaur Song

62

(1)

The Geographer

63

(2)

A Visit to Kaunas

65

(1)

Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941

66

(1)

The Poet

67

(4)

II.

71

(52)

The Debt

71

(3)

Song of Introduction

74

(1)

I Have Come to Jerusalem

75

(1)

Song of Imaginary Arabs

76

(1)

Following the Saints

77

(1)

To Ariel, My Arabist Friend

78

(1)

Exchange of Gifts

79

(1)

Work Song

80

(1)

The Battle

81

(1)

You and I

82

(1)

The Altar

83

(1)

Jerusalem, Easter

84

(3)

In Front of a Poster of Garibaldi

87

(3)

Elegy for Myself

90

(1)

For James Wright

91

(1)

The Gift

92

(2)

Lowell

94

(1)

New York Song

95

(2)

Judas

97

(1)

Lenin, Gorky and I

98

(2)

The Poor ofVenice

100

(1)

Allegory of Evil in Italy

101

(1)

Allegory of Smell

102

(1)

Lullaby

103

(1)

Krill

104

(1)

The Public Gardens of Munich

105

(2)

Some Flowers

107

(1)

The Proof

108

(1)

Three Marys

109

(2)

On Trying to Remember Two Chinese Poems

111

(2)

April, Beijing

113

(2)

China Sonnet

115

(1)

Walking

116

(7)

III.

123

On Seeing an X-ray of My Head

123

(1)

Apocrypha

124

(2)

Black Dog

126

(1)

The Meeting

127

(1)

Potato Song

128

(1)

Poem Before Marriage

129

(1)

Kangaroo

130

(1)

Two Fishermen

131

(1)

Old Fisherman

132

(1)

Prayer

133

(1)

A Sketch of Slaves, Jews in Concentration Camps, and Unhappy Lovers

134

(1)

Photography Isn't Art

135

(2)

Jane's Grandmother

137

(1)

The Return

138

(1)

Old

139

(1)

The Valley

140

(1)

Nicky

141

(1)

Frog

142

(1)

War Ballad

143

(1)

Vomit

144

(2)

Saint Merde

146

(1)

An Exchange of Hats

147

(2)

Clams

149

(1)

Lot's Son

150

(1)

Morning

151

(1)

Prayer for Zero Mostel

152

(1)

Sailing from the United States

153

(1)

The Hangman's Love Song

154

(1)

Sign on the Road

155

(2)

Squall

157

(1)

God Poem

158

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