Hapax: Poems
Autor A.E. Stallingsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2006
Recipient of the 2008 Poet’s Prize
Recipient of the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award
Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of "Aftershocks," this book explores what does and does not survive its "gone moment"-childhood ("The Dollhouse"), ancient artifacts ("Implements from the Grave of the Poet"), a marriage's lost moments of happiness ("Lovejoy Street"). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years. Her musical lyrics cover a range of subjects from love and family to characters and themes derived from classical Greek sources ("Actaeon" and "Sisyphus").
Employing sonnets, couplets, blank verse, haiku, Sapphics, even a sequence of limericks, Stallings displays a seemingly effortless mastery of form. She makes these diverse forms seem new and relevant as modes for expressing intelligent thought as well as charged emotions and a sense of humor. The unique sensibility and linguistic freshness of her work has already marked her as an important, young poet coming into her own.
Recipient of the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award
Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of "Aftershocks," this book explores what does and does not survive its "gone moment"-childhood ("The Dollhouse"), ancient artifacts ("Implements from the Grave of the Poet"), a marriage's lost moments of happiness ("Lovejoy Street"). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years. Her musical lyrics cover a range of subjects from love and family to characters and themes derived from classical Greek sources ("Actaeon" and "Sisyphus").
Employing sonnets, couplets, blank verse, haiku, Sapphics, even a sequence of limericks, Stallings displays a seemingly effortless mastery of form. She makes these diverse forms seem new and relevant as modes for expressing intelligent thought as well as charged emotions and a sense of humor. The unique sensibility and linguistic freshness of her work has already marked her as an important, young poet coming into her own.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810151710
ISBN-10: 0810151715
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 156 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Triquarterly
ISBN-10: 0810151715
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 156 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Triquarterly
Notă biografică
A. E. Stallings was born in 1968 and grew up in Decatur, GA. She studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. Her first poetry collection, Archaic Smile (University of Evansville Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry series (1994 & 2000) and has received numerous awards, including the 2004 Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry and the 2004 Nemerov Sonnet Award from the Formalist. She has recently completed a verse translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura for Penguin Classics. Stallings lives in Athens, Greece with her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, and their son, Jason.
Cuprins
I
Aftershocks
The Dollhouse
Lovejoy Street
The Village in the Lake
Sine Qua Non
Last Will
Arrowhead Hunting
Ubi Sunt Lament for the Eccentric Museums of My Childhood
Thyme
II
Implements from the "Tomb of the Poet"
Visiting the Grave of Rupert Brooke
The Charioteer
Asphodel
An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro
Actaeon
The Modern Greek for "Nightmare" Is Ephialtes
Dead Language Lesson
First Love: A Quiz
Mint
III
Nettles
Flying Colors: Flags of Convenience
"To Speke of Wo That Is in Mariage"
Purgatory
Fragment
Failure
Noir
Alice, Grown-up, at the Cocktail Party
Cassandra
IV
Clean Break
Evil Eye
Apotropaic
Amateur Iconography: Resurrection
Empty Icon Frame
Exile: Picture Postcards
Minutes
V
Explaining an Affinity for Bats
Variations on an Old Standard
Bad News Blues
Two Rhymes for Grown-Ups
Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
Lullaby near the Railroad Tracks
On the Nearest Pass of Mars in Sixty Thousand Years
XII Klassikal Lymnaeryx
Sisyphus
Song for the Women Poets
VI
Jet Lag
Clean Monday
The Song Rehearsal
Prelude
Ultrasound
Some Notes
Acknowledgments
Aftershocks
The Dollhouse
Lovejoy Street
The Village in the Lake
Sine Qua Non
Last Will
Arrowhead Hunting
Ubi Sunt Lament for the Eccentric Museums of My Childhood
Thyme
II
Implements from the "Tomb of the Poet"
Visiting the Grave of Rupert Brooke
The Charioteer
Asphodel
An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro
Actaeon
The Modern Greek for "Nightmare" Is Ephialtes
Dead Language Lesson
First Love: A Quiz
Mint
III
Nettles
Flying Colors: Flags of Convenience
"To Speke of Wo That Is in Mariage"
Purgatory
Fragment
Failure
Noir
Alice, Grown-up, at the Cocktail Party
Cassandra
IV
Clean Break
Evil Eye
Apotropaic
Amateur Iconography: Resurrection
Empty Icon Frame
Exile: Picture Postcards
Minutes
V
Explaining an Affinity for Bats
Variations on an Old Standard
Bad News Blues
Two Rhymes for Grown-Ups
Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
Lullaby near the Railroad Tracks
On the Nearest Pass of Mars in Sixty Thousand Years
XII Klassikal Lymnaeryx
Sisyphus
Song for the Women Poets
VI
Jet Lag
Clean Monday
The Song Rehearsal
Prelude
Ultrasound
Some Notes
Acknowledgments
Descriere
Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of "Aftershocks," this book explores what does and does not survive its "gone moment"-childhood ("The Dollhouse"), ancient artifacts ("Implements from the Grave of the Poet"), a marriage's lost moments of happiness ("Lovejoy Street"). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years. Her musical lyrics cover a range of subjects from love and family to characters and themes derived from classical Greek sources ("Actaeon" and "Sisyphus").