Stanley Moss

Stanley Moss (June 21, 1925 – July 5, 2024) was an American poet, publisher, and art dealer.

Life and work Moss was born in Woodhaven, New York, on June 21, 1925, as Stanley David Moskowitz. 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 affected 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 sixteen 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).

Moss was married twice and had one son, Tobia Milla Moss, who lives and works in Italy. On July 5, 2024, he died at a rehabilitation center in New City, New York, at the age of 99. .