AE Stallings is celebrated as a poet of wit and wisdom. Stallings’s poetry is known for its ingenuity, wit, and dexterous use of classical allusion and forms to illuminate contemporary life. In interviews, Stallings has spoken about the influence of classical authors on her own work: “The ancients taught me how to sound modern,” she told Forbes magazine.
"Ajar" was written while I was translating Hesiod's Works and Days, an archaic Greek poem-cum-almanac about justice and farming, chores and the seasons. ‘Actaeon’ by A. E. Stallings is based on the captivating mythological story of Actaeon and is told from the perspective of a speaker who taunts the main character for how he lost his life. The hounds, you know them all by name.
Stallings's poetry is known for its ingenuity, wit, and dexterous use of classical allusion and forms to illuminate contemporary life. A. E. Stallings is celebrated as a poet of wit and wisdom. Her subjects are beauty and calamity, the acute present and the ancient past. Her poems are often unshakeable, straddling jest and oracularity in ageless lines ready-made for recitation.
The doll house by a.e stallings
Stallings’s poetry is known for its ingenuity, wit, and dexterous use of classical allusion and forms to illuminate contemporary life. In interviews, Stallings has spoken about the influence of classical authors on her own work: “The ancients taught me how to sound modern,” she told Forbes magazine.
A.e. stallings this afterlife
‘Actaeon’ by A. E. Stallings is based on the captivating mythological story of Actaeon and is told from the perspective of a speaker who taunts the main character for how he lost his life. The hounds, you know them all by name. A.e. stallings sonnet
A. E. Stallings is celebrated as a poet of wit and wisdom. Her subjects are beauty and calamity, the acute present and the ancient past. Her poems are often unshakeable, straddling jest and oracularity in ageless lines ready-made for recitation. Recitative by a.e. stallings
A. E. Stallings—perhaps America’s best living poet—doesn’t live in America. She moved to Greece in , the year her first book, Archaic Smile, was published. And she’s used that combination of American and European, ancient and modern, to fine effect in poems that bring together the classical and contemporary worlds with cleverness. A.E. Stallings - This Afterlife: Selected Poems [Feature Review] A. E. Stallings—perhaps America’s best living poet—doesn’t live in America. She moved to Greece in 1999, the year her first book, Archaic Smile, was published. And she’s used that combination of American and European, ancient and modern, to fine effect in poems that bring together the classical and contemporary worlds with cleverness.A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity - The Nation A. E. Stallings is an American poet and former MacArthur fellow who lives in Athens, Greece. Her latest collection, This Afterlife: Selected Poems, was just published.Life in the Present Tense: “Like” by A. E. Stallings In Like, her latest collection from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Stallings presents a diverse quiver of poems — arranged in alphabetical order — polished and sharpened by her typically innovative. A.e. stallings the dollhouse theme
In Like, her latest collection from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Stallings presents a diverse quiver of poems — arranged in alphabetical order — polished and sharpened by her typically innovative. Momentary a.e. stallings
This Afterlife is a compilation of poems taken from her four previously published books: Archaic Smile (), Hapax (), Olives (), and Like (). The book also contains a dozen lesser-known uncollected poems, and three pieces of Stallings’s Greek-to-English translation work. A.e. stallings recent poems
The publication of Stallings’s This Afterlife: Selected Poems, which brings together work from her four collections, as well as 12 uncollected poems and three new translations from modern.
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In nominating Stallings for the position of Oxford Professor of Poetry in , British literary critic and scholar Sir Christopher Ricks wrote: "The poems of A. E. Stallings are never less than the true voice of feeling, and always more she is able to realize in her poems the myriad minds of Europe.".