Soon

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Soon

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Soon, Stanley Moss's monumental final book of poems, was completed late in his 99th year. His poetic mastery only increased with age. This collection adds dozens of stunning poems written since Almost Complete Poems took the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry in 2016. In his final selection of verse, Moss foregrounds an unparalleled freedom of heart, mind, and imagination. Soon includes verse epistles, elegies, and homages to friends, who include W. H. Auden, Michael Schmidt, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jean Garrigue, Stanley Kunitz, Oliver Sacks, Emily Fragos, T. R. Hummer, Delmore Schwartz, James Wright, Laren McClung, W. S. Merwin, and Paul Celan, among many others. Moss was a lover of dogs and trees. He lifted engines against the Almighty and took delight in flouting cant. A force of nature, Moss wrote about art, sex, history, politics, rage, tenderness, gods, beauty, and love. He used poetry to understand and transform the world, following his unbounded curiosity. His poems delight in play.

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