{"product_id":"like-poems-a-e-stallings","title":"Like: Poems;  A.E. Stallings","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike, 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 this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKnown for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLost and Found\u003c\/i\u003e, a meditation in\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eottava rima\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon a parent's sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon's Valley of Lost Things.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeptember 25, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAlicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStallings was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia, and the University of Oxford. She is an editor with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In 1999, Stallings moved to Athens, Greece and has lived there ever since. She is the Poetry Program Director of the Athens Centre. She is married to John Psaropoulos, who is the editor of the Athens News.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStallings' poetry uses traditional forms, and she has been associated with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Formalism\"\u003eNew Formalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe is a frequent contributor of poems and essays to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine. She has published three books of original verse, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Archaic Smile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/299636.Archaic_Smile\"\u003eArchaic Smile\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1999), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Hapax\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/194045.Hapax\"\u003eHapax\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2006), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Olives\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13090290.Olives\"\u003eOlives\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2012). In 2007 she published a verse translation of Lucretius' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDe Rerum Natura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Nature of Things\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/493005.The_Nature_of_Things\"\u003eThe Nature of Things\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45535193432386,"sku":"","price":7.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/like.jpg?v=1688914936","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/like-poems-a-e-stallings","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}