This Afterlife

Selected Poems

A. E. Stallings

ISBN 9781800172678

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £15.99

PUBLICATION DATE 8th December 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 240pp

TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada

BIC CODE DCF Poetry

• Athens resident and award-winning American poet A. E. Stallings’ first book to be published in the UK

• Her previous collection, Like (FSG), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize

• This Selected includes highlights from Stallings’ first four books and also new poems never before collected in book form

• Her poems come out of life’s dailiness – as a wife, mother, teacher, and expatriate

• Current events and ancient history are always rubbing shoulders in her poems, where she explores motherhood, marriage, mortality, and Greek mythology with her trademark clarity, playfulness, and contemporary idiom (and rhyme)

About The Author

A. E. Stallings is a U.S.-born poet and translator who lives in Greece. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia) and Oxford University, and lives now in Athens. She has published four volumes of poetry (Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like), and three volumes of verse translation, including Lucretius’ The Nature of Things and Hesiod’s Works and Days with Penguin Classics. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her translation and poetry, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur fellowship. Her poetry book, Like (FSG), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

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