{"title":"A E Stallings","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"this-afterlife-book-a-e-stallings-9780374607838","title":"This Afterlife","description":"A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.  This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across years and experience, creating a complex music of harmony, dissonance, and counterpoint. The Underworld and the Afterlife, ancient history and the archaeology of the here and now, all slant rhyme with one another. Many of these poems unfold in the mytho-domestic sphere, through the eyes of Penelope or Pandora, Alice in Wonderland or the poet herself. Fulfilling the promise of the energy and sprezzatura of Stallings's earliest collection, her later technical accomplishments rise to meet the richness of lived experience: of marriage and motherhood, of a life lived in another language and country, of aging and mortality. Her chosen home of Greece adds layers of urgency to her fascination with Greek mythology; living in an epicenter of contemporary crises means current events and ancient history are always rubbing shoulders in her poems.  Expert at traditional received forms, Stallings is also a poet of restless experiment, in cat's-cradle rhyme schemes, nonce stanzas, supple free verse, thematic variation, and metaphysical conceits. The pleasure of these poems, fierce and witty, melancholy and wise, lies in a timeless precision that will outlast the fickleness of fashion.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":54987950227829,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54987950424437,"sku":"NIN9780374607838","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/0374607834.jpg?v=1738891586"},{"product_id":"archaic-smile-book-a-e-stallings-9780374600723","title":"Archaic Smile","description":"In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life (like losing an umbrella or fishing with one's father), and she infuses the latter with the magic of myth and history. With the skill of a scholar and translator and the playful, pristine composition of a poet, Stallings bridges the gap between these two distant worlds.   Stallings \"invigorates the old forms and makes them sing\" (Meryl Natchez, ZYZZYVA) in her poetry, and the scope and origins of her talents are on full display in the acclaimed author's first collection. The poems of Archaic Smile are sung with a timeless, technically impeccable, and utterly true voice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":54987955208565,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54987955405173,"sku":"NIN9780374600723","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/0374600724.jpg?v=1738891620"},{"product_id":"battle-between-the-frogs-and-the-mice-book-a-e-stallings-9781589881426","title":"The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice","description":"A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings' elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect choice to honor the mousy Muse.--\u003cb\u003eEmily Wilson, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStallings' translation of this ancient epic is a delight: charming, witty, and vividly alive, with buoyant rhymes and eye-catching illustrations. I suspect this will become a beloved addition in many home libraries.--\u003cb\u003eMadeline Miller, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the award-winning poet and translator A. E. Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable \u003ci\u003eThe Battle between the Frogs and the Mice\u003c\/i\u003e. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle \u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species. This dark but delightful parable about the foolishness of war is illustrated throughout in striking drawings by Grant Silverstein.\u003cp\u003eThe clever introduction is written from the point of view of a mouse who argues that perhaps the unknown author of the fable is not a human after all: Who better than a mouse, then, to compose our diminutive, though not ridiculous, epic, a mouse born and bred in a library, living off lamp oil, ink, and the occasional nibble of a papyrus, constantly perched on the shoulder of some scholar or scholiast of Homer, perhaps occasionally whispering in his ear? Mouse, we may remember, is only one letter away from Muse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":55045935137141,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":55045935333749,"sku":"NIN9781589881426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/1589881427.jpg?v=1739415182"},{"product_id":"frieze-frame-book-a-e-stallings-9781589882003","title":"Frieze Frame","description":"Award-winning poet and Oxford Professor of Poetry, A. E. Stallings has marshaled poetry, personal letters, paintings, a dubiously translated 1801 firman, newspaper clippings, parliamentary proceedings, a Greek political campaign, and other lore in this deliciously detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA, Elgin) Marbles. Her narrative encompasses the removal of the marbles from the Athenian Acropolis, their various misadventures before and after installation in the British Museum, from shipwreck to boxing matches, and the case for their return to Greece. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing fresh air to a stale debate, the main concern of\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eFrieze Frame\u003c\/i\u003e is the effect the Marbles have had on poets, writers, painters, actors, architects, and vice versa--how poets and painters, for instance, have framed the Marbles' place in art and culture. Keats, Byron, Cavafy, an aristocrat who loses his nose and his fortune, a bad painter who commits suicide, a general who takes his cat into battle, are among the cast of characters. In the author's own words, I am, to a certain extent, as interested in the strange stories and people surrounding the stones as the controversy  of their removal] and their fate. Key for Stallings is the creative world of the Marbles, the ways that they appear in nineteenth (and twentieth) century writing and art, race theory and beyond, and the influence they have exerted in our society: cultural figures, maybe even characters, in their own right.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":56955215511925,"sku":"NIN9781589882003","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":57264325296501,"sku":"NGR9781589882003","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/6996\/5613\/files\/9781589882003.jpg?v=1774072982"}],"url":"https:\/\/stage.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-a-e-stallings.oembed","provider":"World of Books Staging","version":"1.0","type":"link"}