The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice - Stallings, A E
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From the award-winning poet and translator Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, it is the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species.

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From the award-winning poet and translator Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, it is the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species.
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A. E. Stallings is an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (which won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award), Hapax (recipient of the Poets' Prize), Olives (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Like. Her translation of Lucretius (into rhyming fourteeners), The Nature of Things, was called by Peter Stothard in the TLS "One of the most extraordinary classical translations of recent times." Stallings has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (US), and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and United States Artists, as well as a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work is widely anthologized, and has been included in the Best American Poetry in 1994, 2000, and 2015, and in the Best of the Best American Poetry (ed. Robert Pinsky). Her poems appear in The Atlantic Monthly, The Beloit Poetry Review, The Dark Horse, The New Yorker, Poetry , Poetry Magazine (Chicago), Poetry Review, and the TLS, among others. She also contributes essays and reviews to the American Scholar, Parnassus, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Review, the TLS, and the Yale Review. Stallings is married to the journalist, John Psaropoulos, and has two children, Jason and Atalanta.