"Olives" harvests 43 poems by A. E. Stallings, a poet living in Athens, a classicist, translator, writer who has received much acclaim. She shares with another A. E. (poet A.E. Housman) a fluency in the austere beauty of Greek poetry a piercing wry wit that is very much her own. There are many reasons to like this book. For example,/5(40). · Frost declared that from a collection of twenty-four poems the book should become the twenty-fifth. Few books of poetry live up to these ideals. A.E. Stallings’ third book of poetry, Olives, exceeds them, “full of the golden past and steeped in brine.”. A.E. Stallings. 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 .
Looking for books by A.E. Stallings? See all books authored by A.E. Stallings, including Olives, and Hapax: Poems, and more on www.doorway.ru OLIVES By A.E. Stallings. Northwestern University Press Noyes St. Evanston, IL ISBN#: , 80 pp., $ www.doorway.ru A.E. Stallings has established herself firmly between the realms of traditional poetry and modern life. A. E. Stallings is the author of the poetry books Archaic Smile, which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax, which won the Poet's Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Danks Award; and www.doorway.ru has also published a verse translation of Lucretius's The Nature of www.doorway.rungs is a Guggenheim Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow.
"Olives" harvests 43 poems by A. E. Stallings, a poet living in Athens, a classicist, translator, writer who has received much acclaim. She shares with another A. E. (poet A.E. Housman) a fluency in the austere beauty of Greek poetry a piercing wry wit that is very much her own. There are many reasons to like this book. For example. Like the olives of the title, the book embraces the bitter but savory fruits of the ancient tree. Olives by A.E. Stallings Summary. Stallings begins this poem by describing the taste of the olives. According to the speaker of this piece, Structure. This poem consists of five stanzas and each stanza contains five lines. There is a set rhyme scheme. Literary Devices. The poem begins with an.
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