Preorder: Andrew Mossin: A Common World (begins shipping Feb. 17th, 2025)

'A seance with the ordinary,' A Common World explores the tensions between the spiritual and phenomenological planes of experience in poems that assert the primacy of perception and the languaged self.

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Advance Praise for A Common World:

"Even as they are banished (or absconded), gods, as the colors and savor of the world, crowd the evidence of our senses, adding a lustre of their own to the lustre of mere being. In this beautiful collection, A Common World, Andrew Mossin considers long and lovingly of the intricate exchanges—radiance for radiance, outrage for outrage, delight for delight—which sustain us on this side of extinction, and which might very well sustain us farther on. Quite literally, Mossin amplifies the world with a vivid attention. These are generous, glorious poems."

Donald Revell, Canandaigua (2024)

Convening a séance with the ordinary, Andrew Mossin makes of the common world an uncommon medium in which converge holiness and the shifts of light on a field, days that pass without noticing, being and becoming, and the admission that “Everything is less recognizable / than the language that came before it.” These marvelous sequences are as contemplative as they are enervated, as philosophical as they are phenomenological, darkly grooved and borne of faith, drawn from the conviction that “Eternity lies elsewhere,” even as Hermes walks past.

Peter O’Leary, Earth Is Best (2022)

These poems reach into a quiet intensity – powerful illuminations of the sacred within the profane, dissolving that antinomy, opening it up, in an irradiating flood of logos entwined with eros. The lines float in their own force fields, curving back around themselves, singing not of completion but a perpetual suspension – “song’s lasting inquiry.” This is a book of deep enchantment.

Patrick Pritchett, Sunderland (2023)

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Andrew Mossin is a poet, scholar, and creative non-fictionist whose poetry books include The Veil (Singing Horse Press), Exile's Recital (Spuyten Duyvil), Whitman at the Bardo (Spuyten Duyvil) and A Common World (The Bodily Press).  His scholarship includes a collection of essays, Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry (Palgrave) and the edited collection, Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis (University of New Mexico Press). A Son from the Mountains, his memoir of adoption and family trauma, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2021. He is currently collaborating with Monica F. Jacobe on a book-length study of the visual artist and photographer, Willaim Christenberry.  Mossin is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia. He lives in Doylestown, PA.