{"product_id":"like-poems-paperback","title":"Like: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. E. Stallings\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnown for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance \u003ci\u003eLost and Found\u003c\/i\u003e, a meditation in \u003ci\u003eottava rima\u003c\/i\u003e on a parent's sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon's Valley of Lost Things.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. E. Stallings\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry books \u003ci\u003eArchaic Smile\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Richard Wilbur Award; \u003ci\u003eHapax\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Poet's Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Danks Award; and \u003ci\u003eOlives\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also published a verse translation of Lucretius's \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things\u003c\/i\u003e. Stallings is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Athens, Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pulitzer Prize (2019)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755624202528,"sku":"9780374538682","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d6875da96f48031454200ad8a11d3cb4.webp?v=1780063905","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/like-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}