This afterlife : selected poems

This afterlife Selected poems

A. E. Stallings, 1968-

Book - 2022

"A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator"--

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Subjects
American poetry > 21st century.
Poetry.
Genres
Poetry
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
A. E. Stallings, 1968- (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
214 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780374600693
  • From Archaie Smile (1999)
  • A Postcard from Greece
  • Hades Welcomes His Bride
  • Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother
  • Eurydice's Footnote
  • How the Demons Were Assimilated & Became Productive Citizens
  • Cardinal Numbers
  • A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood
  • Homecoming
  • Consolation for Tamar
  • Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses
  • Crazy to Hear the Tale Again (The Fall of Troy)
  • Medea, Homesick
  • The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles
  • Tour of the Labyrinth
  • Daphne
  • Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena
  • The Mistake
  • The Tantrum
  • Fishing
  • Study in White
  • The Machines Mourn the Passing of People
  • The Man Who Wouldn't Plant Willow Trees
  • From Hapax (2006)
  • Aftershocks
  • The Dollhouse
  • Lovejoy Street
  • Sine Qua Non
  • Last Will
  • Arrowhead Hunting
  • Ubi Sunt Lament for the Eccentric Museums of My Childhood
  • Thyme
  • The Charioteer
  • Asphodel
  • An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro
  • The Modern Greek for "Nightmare" Is Ephialtes
  • Dead Language Lesson
  • First Love: A Quiz
  • "To Speke of Wo That Is in Mariage"
  • Fragment
  • Evil Eye
  • Empty Icon Frame
  • Bouzouki, from Exile: Picture Postcards
  • Explaining an Affinity for Bats
  • Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
  • Lullaby Near the Railroad Tracks
  • Song for the Women Poets
  • Jet Lag
  • Clean Monday
  • Prelude
  • Ultrasound
  • From Olives (2012)
  • Olives
  • Jigsaw Puzzle
  • Recitative
  • Sublunary
  • Four Fibs
  • Deus Ex Machina
  • Telephonophobia
  • The Argument
  • Burned
  • On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia
  • Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Ascribed to Martin Luther
  • Two Violins
  • The Ghost Ship
  • Handbook of the Foley Artist
  • Extinction of Silence
  • The Cenotaph
  • Pop Music
  • Persephone to Psyche, from Three Poems for Psyche
  • Fairy-Tale Logic
  • The Catch
  • Containment
  • Accident Waiting to Happen
  • Tulips
  • Alice in the Looking Glass
  • Umbrage
  • Hide and Seek
  • Sea Girls
  • Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason, Aged Three
  • The Mother's Loathing of Balloons
  • Another Bedtime Story
  • OLIVES
  • From Like (2018)
  • After a Greek Proverb
  • Ajar
  • Alice, Bewildered
  • Art Monster
  • Cast Irony
  • Colony Collapse Disorder
  • Denouement
  • Dyeing the Easter Eggs
  • Empathy
  • Epic Simile
  • First Miracle
  • For Atalanta
  • Glitter
  • Half of an Epic Simile Not Found in Hesiod
  • The Last Carousel
  • Like, the Sestina
  • Lost and Found
  • Memorial (Mnemosyno)
  • Momentary
  • Pencil
  • Placebo
  • Appendix A. Useful Phrases in Arabic, Farsi/Dari, and Greek, from Refugee Fugue
  • The Rosehead Nail
  • Scissors
  • Sea Urchins
  • Selvage
  • Shattered
  • Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda
  • Silence
  • Book Omega, from Similes, Suitors
  • The Stain
  • Sunset, Wings
  • Swallows
  • Whethering
  • "Lagniappe" of Uncollected Poems (1999-2017)
  • Fear of Happiness
  • Chairs
  • Song: The Rivers of Hell
  • Jack-O'-Lanterns
  • Mosaic Once Depicting Arianist Saints
  • The Magi
  • After Reading the Biography Savage Beauty
  • Daphne, After
  • The Barnacle
  • Learning to Read Greek
  • The Arsenic Hour
  • Uncollected Translations
  • Yannis Keats, by Angelos Sikelianos
  • Frieze, by Angelos Sikelianos
  • Upon a Line of Foreign Verse, by George Seferis
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index of Titles and First Lines
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this generous selected, translator and poet Stallings (Like) gathers poems from her first four books, as well as previously uncollected poems and translations of George Seferis and Angelos Sikilianos. Spanning 25 years, the oeuvre proves consistent in its adherence to metered rhyme and unabashed allegiance to Greco-Roman sources ("I bow to the yoke/ of making" and "I am/ doctor not of medicine,/ but Latinity," the poet asserts). Readers unversed in classical philology and linguistics may find themselves reaching for a dictionary: "Paradigmatic summers that decline/ Like singular archaic nouns"; "He cursed in the fricative,/ The way she could not act./ Or live in the indicative,/ Only contrary to fact." Persona poems abound, fixed especially on female figures from Western myth, while a poem addressed to "women poets" suggests a dual identification: "You who are both Orpheus/ And She he left in Hell." In "Jigsaw Puzzle" she writes: "Slowly you restore/ The fractured world and start/ To re-create an afternoon before/ It fell apart" Aesthetic and intellectual pleasures are everywhere in this considerable work. (Dec.)

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