“Undaunted, outrageously alive, Moss flaunts more colors than the Grim Reaper ever dreamed of, laughs in his face, rhymes with abandon, makes a joyful noise unto the Lord, and struts with Baudelaire. This is a book to hold onto for dear life.” —Rosanna Warren

“Moss’s poems are dazzling and brash, gentle and playful, open and generous, fiercely sharp in their moral witness, unlimited in their virtuosic, musical range, and skill. ‘I am grateful for the miracle of you and I being alive,’ the poet sings, a faithful lover of the deeply good. In his “Elegy for Me,” the poet proudly says he ‘made God laugh.’ Stanley Moss makes God laugh. Only the best are capable of that.” —Lawrence Joseph