Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... This Afterlife: Selected Poems ISBN:0374600694 Author:Stallings, A.E. Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux Release Date:2022 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:New Sku: 2344534 Notes: First edition. An exceptional copy. 2022 Hard Cover. 214 pp. This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings’s four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across years and experience, creating a complex music of harmony, dissonance, and counterpoint. The Underworld and the Afterlife, ancient history and the archaeology of the here and now, all slant rhyme with one another. Many of these poems unfold in the mytho-domestic sphere, through the eyes of Penelope or Pandora, Alice in Wonderland or the poet herself. Fulfilling the promise of the energy and sprezzatura of Stallings’s earliest collection, her later technical accomplishments rise to meet the richness of lived experience: of marriage and motherhood, of a life lived in another language and country, of aging and mortality. Her chosen home of Greece adds layers of urgency to her fascination with Greek mythology; living in an epicenter of contemporary crises means current events and ancient history are always rubbing shoulders in her poems. Expert at traditional received forms, Stallings is also a poet of restless experiment, in cat’s-cradle rhyme schemes, nonce stanzas, supple free verse, thematic variation, and metaphysical conceits. The pleasure of these poems, fierce and witty, melancholy and wise, lies in a timeless precision that will outlast the fickleness of fashion. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Book Title: This Afterlife : Selected Poems
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: General, American / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: A. E. Stallings
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
