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This Afterlife: Selected Poems: A.E. Stallings

  • ISBN-13: 9781800172678
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By A.E. Stallings
  • Price: AUD $39.99
  • Stock: 32 in stock
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  • Local release date: 28/02/2023
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 260 pages Weight: 300g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The ancients taught me how to sound modern, Alicia Elsbeth Stallings said in an interview. They showed me that technique was not the enemy of urgency, but the instrument. For her, technique is rooted in traditions of strict forms and meters, an interest that sets her apart as modern - and American - in challenging ways, for being on the face of it old-fashioned, yet ambitiously experimental among the forms she uses. Born and raised in Georgia, she lives in Athens, Greece. Her poems come out of lifes dailiness - as a wife, mother, teacher, an expatriate between languages, a brilliant translator of ancient and modern Greek. She also translates Latin, her most notable large work being the Penguin Lucretius, translated into fourteeners. Being a poet in Greece entails, for her, being part of that world. She volunteered to help refugees arriving in Greece and their experience haunted her to write, My love, Im grateful tonight/ Our listing bed isnt a raft/Precariously adrift/As we dodge the coast guard light... The sharp quatrain commends the observation to memory. The poems, without self-indulgence or confession, are intimate as they address My love, children or friends.

A. E. Stallings is a U.S.-born poet and translator who lives in Greece. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia) and Oxford University, and lives now in Athens. She has published four volumes of poetry (Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like), and three volumes of verse translation, including Lucretius’ The Nature of Things and Hesiod’s Works and Days with Penguin Classics. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her translation and poetry, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur fellowship. Her poetry book, Like (FSG), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.
* Athens resident and award-winning American poet A. E. Stallings’ first book to be published in the UK. * Her previous collection, Like (FSG), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. * This Selected includes highlights from Stallings’ first four books and also new poems never before collected in book form. * Her poems come out of life’s dailiness – as a wife, mother, teacher, and expatriate. * Current events and ancient history are always rubbing shoulders in her poems, where she explores motherhood, marriage, mortality, and Greek mythology with her trademark clarity, playfulness, and contemporary idiom (and rhyme).
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