title: Stanley Moss
text: # Stanley Moss
  
  Stanley Moss (born June 21, 1925) is an American poet, publisher, and art dealer.
  
  ## Life and work
  
  Moss was born in Woodhaven, New York on June 21, 1925. His father was a high school principal. The family was non-religious, but occasionally celebrated Jewish holidays. A tour of Southern Europe and the Middle East at the age of eight, described in the essay "Satyr Song," greatly impacted Moss, exposing him to European painting, Levantine culture, and geopolitics.
  
  Moss was hired as an editorial assistant at New Directions in 1949. His first book of poems, The Wrong Angel, was published in 1966. He is the author of five other books of poems: The Skull of Adam (1979), The Intelligence of Clouds (1989), Asleep in the Garden (1997), A History of Color (2003), New & Selected Poems 2006 , and God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike: New & Later Collected Poems (2011) .
  
  