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An account of Moss's final months of WWII, this is reprinted to tie in with the 70th anniversary of his and Patrick Leigh Fermor's kidnapping of German General Kreipe from Crete. The sequel to "Ill Met By Moonlight", which was made into a 1957 film with Dirk Bogarde.

Carcanet adds a legendary American poet, editor, poetry and art activist to its list.

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A new collection by legendary American poet, editor and poetry and art activist, Stanley Moss

WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYMoss is oceanic: his poems rise, crest, crash, and rise again like waves. His voice echoes the boom of the Old Testament, the fluty trill of Greek mythology, and the gongs of Chinese rituals as he writes about love, nature, war, oppression, and the miracle of language. He addresses the God of the Jews, of the Christians, and of the Muslims with awe and familiarity, and chants to lesser go...

Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.

It is time to celebrate the singular beauty and power of Stanley Moss's poetry. He is a citizen of the world, both past and present, one who seems to have been everywhere and missed nothing. These are poems, out of the fullness of life, that impress me as being all at once deep, strange, loving, bountiful, and a joy to read.... The damp genius of mortality presides." - Stanley Kunitz

Over the years, as Danny has published more stories and novels about films, and suicide, and the existential issues confronting contemporary mankind, I have come to appreciate his erudition, his writing talent, the richness of his imagination, and also his wonderful humor. To spend an evening with him without laughing is quite simply inconceivable, " Elie Wiesel has written of Daniel Stern, the novelist, teacher, and cellist whom this book cel...

The poetry of the ages is an argument with God, so it is said, but not many poets attempt it today. Stanley Moss does. In many voices, in lines rugged yet eloquent, in different places and with various leanings, he sings us songs of his unbelievable belief, his unlovable lovesongs of anguish, songs any of us would sing if we could. I find them disconcerting and extraordinarily moving." --John Ashberry

Ill Met By Moonlight" describes the stunning kidnapping of an enemy general--a brilliantly written, exciting, and compelling WWII story.

Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz, considered by many to be America's greatest living poet, has been for many decades a major influence on poets through his poetry and his teaching. This Tribute on his 96th birthday is a feast prepared lovingly by the following poets among others: Richard Wilbur, Alan Dugan, Cleopatra Mathis, Louise Gluck, Stanley Moss, Marie Howe, Galway Kinnell, Susan Mitchell, Michael Ryan, Christopher Busa, Jack Gilbert, Mark R...

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, ba...