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Howard Moss

 
American Author: Howard Moss
 
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  • Born: January 22, 1922
  • Birthplace: New York, NY
  • Died: September 16, 1987

Poet, critic, playwright and editor Howard Moss was poetry editor of the New Yorker magazine for nearly four decades, until his death in 1987. A 1943 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he published 12 volumes of poetry, receiving the National Book Award for poetry for his Selected Poems in 1971. Moss also wrote three plays, The Folding Green (1958), The Oedipus Mah-Jongg Scandal (1968), and The Palace at 4 A.M. (1972).

Most Famous Works

  • The Toy Fair (1954)
  • Finding Them Lost and Other Poems (1965)
  • Selected Poems (1971)
  • Buried City (1975)
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1943The Wound and the Weather. Moss, the future poetry editor of The New Yorker (1948-1987), publishes his first volume of calm and graceful observations.
1954The Toy Fair. After his debut collection, The Wound and the Weather (1946), Moss gains a reputation as one of the leading contemporary poets for this second volume, which Howard Nemerov calls "one of the most accomplished collections of lyric poetry to appear since the war."
1957A Swimmer in the Air. Moss's third collection contains one of his most admired poems, "A Summer Gone," concerning the passing of time, death, and change. Other poems, such as "Horror Movie," show the poet's witty wordplay.
1960A Winter Come, A Summer Gone: Poems, 1946-1960. Moss selects works from his first three collections around the theme of love. The poems display characteristics of his work identified by critic Karl Malkoff as tracing the "connections between the human universe and the cosmos as a whole" through "wit and intellect."
1965Finding Them Lost and Other Poems. Moss's most highly praised collection offers various treatments of loss, including "The Pruned Tree" and "September Elegy," as well as the sequence "Lifelines."
1968Second Nature. Moss's collection displays a noticeable shift in approach in a series of conversational poems approximating free verse.
1971Selected Poems. This compilation of the poet's best work from the 1960s, with several new poems, wins the National Book Award. New Selected Poems would appear in 1985.
1975Buried City. Moss's collection offers various reflections of New York City life and contains admired works such as "Tattoo," "Chekhov," and the title poem.

 
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Howard Moss (January 22, 1922–September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic, who was poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine from 1948 until his death. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and the National Book Award in 1972 for Selected Poems.

Moss was born in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award. He is credited with discovering a number of major American poets, including Anne Sexton and Amy Clampitt.

W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman co-wrote a famously concise clerihew in his honor:

TO THE POETRY EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER
Is Robert Lowell
Better than Noel
Coward,
Howard?

Poetry

  • The Wound and the Weather (1946)
  • The Toy Fair (1954)
  • A Swimmer in the Air (1957)
  • A Winter Come, A Summer Gone: Poems, 1946-1960 (1960)
  • Finding Them Lost and Other Poems (1965)
  • Second Nature (1968)
  • Selected Poems (1971)
  • Buried City: Poems (1975)

Plays

  • The Folding Green (1958)
  • The Oedipus Mah-Jongg Scandal (1968)
  • The Palace at 4 A.M. (1972)

Other

  • Instant Lives & More (1972)
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