Like
eBook - ePub

Like

Poems

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Like

Poems

About this book

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator. "A.E. Stallings's latest volume of poetry feels a bit like a dream an academic might have. LIKE is a beautiful, perfectly synthesized conflation of the modern and ancient world, filled with so much mythology and culture." — Englewood Review of Books

Like, 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.Known for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance Lost and Found, a meditation in ottava rima on a parent's sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon's Valley of Lost Things.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. After a Greek Proverb
  6. Ajar
  7. Alice, Bewildered
  8. Art Monster
  9. Autumn Pruning
  10. Battle of Plataea: Aftermath
  11. Bedbugs in Marriage Bed
  12. Cast Irony
  13. Colony Collapse Disorder
  14. The Companions of Odysseus in Hades
  15. Crow, Gentleman
  16. Cyprian Variations
  17. Denouement
  18. Dutch Flower Painting from the 1670s
  19. Dyeing the Easter Eggs
  20. Eheu
  21. Empathy
  22. Epic Simile
  23. The Erstwhile Archivist
  24. First Miracle
  25. For Atalanta
  26. Glitter
  27. Half of an Epic Simile Not Found in Hesiod
  28. The Last Carousel
  29. Lice
  30. Like, the Sestina
  31. Little Owl
  32. Lost and Found
  33. Memorial (Mnemosyno)
  34. Momentary
  35. The Mycenaean Bridge
  36. The Myrtle Grove
  37. Night Thoughts
  38. Pandora
  39. Parmenion
  40. Peacock Feathers
  41. Pencil
  42. Placebo
  43. Psalm Beginning with Two Lines of Smart’s Jubilate Agno
  44. The Pull Toy
  45. Refugee Fugue
  46. The Rosehead Nail
  47. The Sabine Women
  48. Scissors
  49. Sea Urchins
  50. Selvage
  51. Shattered
  52. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda
  53. Silence
  54. Similes, Suitors
  55. Sounion
  56. The Stain
  57. Summer Birthdays
  58. Sunset, Wings
  59. Swallows
  60. Variation on a Theme by Ouranis
  61. Whethering
  62. Acknowledgments
  63. Also by A. E. Stallings
  64. A Note About the Author
  65. Newsletter Sign-up
  66. Contents
  67. Copyright