Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.

Urbane and cosmopolitan, Stanley Moss's poems are the work of a writer once described as "a citizen of the world, both past and present, one who seems to have been everywhere and missed nothing". In strong lyrics and searching narratives he explores...