Skull of Adam

Stanley Moss was born in New York City. He was educated at Trinity College and Yale University. He makes his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian old masters, and is the publisher and editor of The Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit press devoted to poetry.

"I came away from reading 'Skull of Adam' with these phrases passing through my mind: The sadness of biblical loss: the prophet in Gaza without his God: the melancholy of the modern finding its beauty in loss itself. And I realized that Moss had struck upon the one theme that preoccupies us all and fills our days: we are adrift between two shores. We no longer have the assurance of a spirit world and we do not have the confidence in ourselves to go it alone. In this book, Moss captures the theme in poem after poem with poignancy and keeps me reading to the last page, and then to reread them all for their sweet melancholy which is their beauty and so much a pleasure to experience. It is a paradox that only a master of his art can command." - David Ignatow.