
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- After a Greek Proverb
- Ajar
- Alice, Bewildered
- Art Monster
- Autumn Pruning
- Battle of Plataea: Aftermath
- Bedbugs in Marriage Bed
- Cast Irony
- Colony Collapse Disorder
- The Companions of Odysseus in Hades
- Crow, Gentleman
- Cyprian Variations
- Denouement
- Dutch Flower Painting from the 1670s
- Dyeing the Easter Eggs
- Eheu
- Empathy
- Epic Simile
- The Erstwhile Archivist
- First Miracle
- For Atalanta
- Glitter
- Half of an Epic Simile Not Found in Hesiod
- The Last Carousel
- Lice
- Like, the Sestina
- Little Owl
- Lost and Found
- Memorial (Mnemosyno)
- Momentary
- The Mycenaean Bridge
- The Myrtle Grove
- Night Thoughts
- Pandora
- Parmenion
- Peacock Feathers
- Pencil
- Placebo
- Psalm Beginning with Two Lines of Smart’s Jubilate Agno
- The Pull Toy
- Refugee Fugue
- The Rosehead Nail
- The Sabine Women
- Scissors
- Sea Urchins
- Selvage
- Shattered
- Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda
- Silence
- Similes, Suitors
- Sounion
- The Stain
- Summer Birthdays
- Sunset, Wings
- Swallows
- Variation on a Theme by Ouranis
- Whethering
- Acknowledgments
- Also by A. E. Stallings
- A Note About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright