No Tear Is Commonplace

The poems gathered in this collection from distinguished poet Stanley Moss stage a passionate, curious, and often combative relationship with the world and the forces that shape human life and death. Moss’s range is wide: his poetry recalls the Adirondack wilderness of childhood summers, imagines a young Christ learning carpentry, and reflects on the tragedies of 20th-century Europe in a style that concerns itself less with rhyme than with diction and less obvious metrical patterns. What ul...