e. Stallings appears to die often and well. "Archaic Smile" opens with 'A Postcard from Greece,' a poem in which the speaker describes a car accident experienced while driving 'round a clothespin curve new-watered with the rain,' (a verse whose technique toward centrifugal-force-on-a-page has come back to me many a time I should have been paying attention to toddlers or the traffic light). A.E. (Alicia) Stallings grew up in Decatur, Georgia. She studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. Her poetry collections include Like (), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Olives (), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Hapax (); and Archaic Smile (), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and finalist for both the Yale Younger Poets Series . · Archaic Smile, by A.E. Stallings, recipient of the Richard Wilbur Award, uniquely juxtaposes poetic meditations on mythological themes with poems about the everyday occurances of contemporary life -- such as losing an umbrella or fishing with one's father/5(12).
About Archaic Smile: "A. E. Stallings's Archaic Smile marks a debut of geniune distinction. At a time when so much new poetry seems somber and lackluster, Stallings displays extraordinary powers of invention and delight. Here is a first book that is both slyly original and irresistibly personable." —Dana Gioia. A. E. Stallings, born in , is an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published three collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (which won the Richard Wilbur Award), Hapax (recipient of the Poets' Prize), and Olives, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Poet A. E. Stallings has published two collections of her work, Archaic Smile () and Hapax (), and a translation of Lucretius's De rerum natura. After studying classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University, Stallings moved to Greece, where she has lived since , and her work is infused with mythological references.
A. E. Stallings. A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published three collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and a verse translation (in rhyming fourteeners!) of Lucretius, The Nature of Things. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. A.E. (Alicia) Stallings grew up in Decatur, Georgia. She studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. Her poetry collections include Like (), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Olives (), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Hapax (); and Archaic Smile (), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and finalist for both the Yale Younger Poets Series and the Walt Whitman Award. In a review for her book Archaic Smile, Able Muse, a formalist online poetry journal, noted that, "For all of Stallings' formal virtuosity, few of her poems are strictly metrically regular. Indeed, one of the pleasant surprises of Archaic Smile is the number of superb poems in the gray zone between free and blank verse.".
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