A. E. Stallings

Archaic Smile (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of A. E. Stallings's first book of poems, which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award.

In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life (like losing an umbrella or fishing with one's father), and she infuses the latter with the magic of myth and history. With the skill of a scholar and translator and the playful, pristine composition of a poet, Stallings bridges the gap between these two distant worlds.

Stallings "invigorates the old forms and makes them sing" (Meryl Natchez, ZYZZYVA) in her poetry, and the scope and origins of her talents are on full display in the acclaimed author's first collection. The poems of Archaic Smile are sung with a timeless, technically impeccable, and utterly true voice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374600730
• Artikelnr.: 63159059

Autorenporträt

A. E. Stallings is the author of several books of poetry: Like, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; Olives, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hapax, winner of the Poets' Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Danks Award; and Archaic Smile, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award. She has also published verse translations of Lucretius's The Nature of Things and Hesiod's Works and Days, as well as 'The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice': A Tiny Homeric Epic. Stallings is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Athens, Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents I. Underworld A Postcard from Greece / 3 Hades Welcomes His Bride / 4 Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother / 6 From Whose Bourn No Traveller / 9 Eurydice Reveals Her Strength / 10 Eurydice
s Footnote / 12 How the Demons Were Assimilated & Became Productive Citizens / 14 The Dogdom of the Dead / 16 All Hallows / 17 II. A Bestiary Cardinal Numbers / 21 Words of Prey / 23 Watching the Vulture at the Road Kill / 24 Why the Saying Is
As the Crow Flies
/ 25 Listening to the Monkeys of the Nearby Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center / 26 RepRoach / 28 Lullaby for Insomniacs / 29 Elegy for a Loggerhead Turtle Washed Up on a South Carolina Beach / 31 A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood / 33 III. Tour of the Labyrinth Homecoming / 37 Consolation for Tamar / 38 Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses / 39 Crazy to Hear the Tale Again (The Fall of Troy) / 40 Medea, Homesick / 41 The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles / 42 Ariadne and the Rest / 43 Tour of the Labyrinth / 47 Aeaea / 48 Daphne / 49 Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena / 50 Tithonus / 51 Vale / 52 IV. For the Losers of Things The Mistake / 59 The Tantrum / 60 Fishing / 61 The Poet
s Dream of Herself as a Young Girl / 62 The School of Dreams / 64 Study in White / 66 On Viewing an Exhibit of Paintings, The Treasures of Venice / 67 The Machines Mourn the Passing of People / 68 Menielle / 70 Watching the News After the Tornadoes / 71 The Man Who Wouldn
t Plant Willow Trees / 72 Moving Sale / 73 Where We Moved To / 74 Airing / 76 For the Losers of Things / 77 The Poet
s Sister / 78 Elegy for the Lost Umbrella / 80 Why Reason Can
t Overcome an Irrational Fear / 81 Night Shift / 82