The poems in this book travel with us up to the door of another life. They are clear and radiant with the fulfillment of having lived a life, loving and being loved. There are hands bathing babies, there is the kiss of the lover; there is plywood and good food. Life becomes its most minute details and yet, opens out into some larger realm.

These poems create astonishment. It is with these poems, that Benjamin Saltman has left us. These poems will become for our culture, part of the canon, part of our breath, part of what and who we think of and remember best when we place our...

-The Book of Moss- is a collection of poems, first published by Garden Street Press in 1992; this current edition includes all of the poems in the original edition plus 33 unpublished and hitherto uncollected poems. Benjamin Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1927. He began writing poetry seriously in 1965. Blue With Blue, his first book of poems, published by Lillabulero Press, appeared in 1968. Since then he published seven other books: The Leaves The People, Red Hill Press, 1977; Elegies Of Place, Armchair Press, 1977; Deck, Ithaca House, 1979; Five Poems, Santa Susana Press,...