This Afterlife
This Afterlife
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This Afterlife by Ae Stallings
This Selected includes highlights from Stallings first four books and also new poems never before collected in book form.
'[O]ne of the strongest talents to emerge in recent years' - Poetry Magazine
A.E. Stallings is a U.S.-born poet and translator who lives in Greece. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia) and Oxford University, and lives now in Athens. She has published four volumes of poetry (Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like), and three volumes of verse translation, including Lucretius' The Nature of Things and Hesiod's Works and Days with Penguin Classics. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her translation and poetry, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur fellowship. Her poetry book, Like (FSG), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. In June 2023, Stallings was announced as the new Oxford Professor of Poetry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800172678 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800172672 |
| Title | This Afterlife |
| Author | A E Stallings |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-12-08 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023, Commended for The Poetry Book Society Winter Special Commendation 2022, Short-listed for The London Hellenic Prize 2022 |
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