I ve loved Stanley's poems since I first encountered a poem of his in Poetry magazine in John Berryman s office when I was nineteen. Again and again, coming upon a poem of Stanley Moss s, I have had the feeling of being taken by surprise. Not simply by the eloquence or the direct authenticity of the language, for I had come to expect those in his poems. The surprise arose from the nature of his poetry itself, and from the mystery that his poems confront and embody, which makes them both intense and memorable. W.S. Merwin
Magisterial . . . this book is magnificent. I ve read it several times with greater and greater pleasure. Its verbal generosity and bravura, its humanity, the quality and quantity of information which it integrates into poetry of the highest order make it a continuing delight. Marilyn Hacker"