
Like
Poems
A. E. Stallings(Author)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-374-53868-2 (ISBN)
Description
Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre's note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In Like, her most ambitious collection to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archaeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume's conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character. Known for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance 'Lost and Found', a meditation in ottava rima on a parent's sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon's Valley of Lost Things.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
197 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-374-53868-2 (9780374538682)
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Person
A. E. Stallings is the author of three books of poetry: Archaic Smile, which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax, which won the Poet's Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Danks Award; and Olives. She has also published a verse translation of Lucretius's The Nature of Things. Stallings is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Athens, Greece.