Goddamned Selected Poems

Stanley Moss was born in Woodhaven in 1925. He was educated at Trinity College and Yale University, and he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II. His books are The Wrong Angel (1966), The Skull of Adam (1979), The Intelligence of Clouds (1989), Asleep in the Garden (1997), A History of Color (2003), Songs of Imperfection (2004), New and Selected Poems (2006), Rejoicing (2009), God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike (2011), No Tear is Commonplace (2013), It's About Time (2015), Almost Complete Poems (2016), Abandoned Poems (2018), God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike: New and Selected Poems 1948 – 2019 (2019), Act V, Scene I (2020), Not Yet (2021), Always Alwaysland (2022), and My Sporting Life (2022). He is translated into German by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, into Chinese by Fu Hao, and into Spanish by Valarie Mejer. He has taught in Italy, Spain, Japan, China, and Mexico. Moss has worked as an editor at New Directions, Botteghe Oscure in Rome, New American Library, Bookweek at the New York Herald Tribune, and New American Review. In 1977, he founded Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit publisher that publishes poetry and belles lettres. He makes his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian Old Masters. He lives in Clinton Corners, New York.