Archaic Smile
Poems
$31.29
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2023
Summary
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 ga…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374600723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374600724 |
| Author: | A.E. Stallings |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 137mm x 209mm |
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A.E. Stallings
A. E. Stallings is the author of four 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.
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