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  • The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice

    A Tiny Homeric Epic

    by A. E. Stallings, Grant Silverstein ...
    "A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings' elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect choice to honor the mousy Muse."―Emily Wilson, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania"Stallings' translation of this ancient epic is a delight: charming, witty, and vividly alive, with buoyant ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon

    by A. E. Stallings ...
    Award-winning poet and Oxford Professor of Poetry, A. E. Stallings has marshaled poetry, personal letters, paintings, a dubiously translated 1801 firman, newspaper clippings, parliamentary proceedings, a Greek political campaign, and other lore in this deliciously detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA, Elgin) Marbles. Her narrative encompasses the removal of the Marbles from the ... Read more

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  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    by Dick Davis, Joseph Bennett, Guy Davenport, Alice Bloom, C. B. Cox, Charles W. Millard, Paul Moore Jr., Robert S. Clark, John P. Sisk, C. S. Giscombe, Lynda McDonnell, Madison Smartt Bell, Diana Webster, Jacqueline W. Brown, Hilary Spurling, Frederick Brown, Brooke Allen, Herbert Gold, Christian N. Desrosiers, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Martina Broner, Laurie Olin, David Mason, Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky, A. E. Stallings ...
    The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nature of Things

    by Lucretius ...
    Translated by A. E. Stallings ...
    Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Works and Days

    by Hesiod ...
    Translated by A. E. Stallings ...
    **'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the YearA new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings.**Hesiod was the first self-styled 'poet' in western literature, revered by the ancient Greeks. Ostensibly written to chide and educate his ... Read more

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  • Like

    Poems

    by A. E. Stallings ...
    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 BooksLike... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Afterlife

    Selected Poems

    by A. E. Stallings ...
    Discover the timeless precision and fierce wit of A. E. Stallings's poetry in this stunning selection from her four acclaimed collections.This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together the best of A. E. Stallings's work from Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, along with a lagniappe of additional poems. Themes and characters recur throughout, engaging in a complex interplay of harmony, ... Read more

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  • Archaic Smile

    Poems

    by A. E. Stallings ...
    A new edition of A. E. Stallings's first book of poems, which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award.In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life (like losing an umbrella or fishing with one’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In Deadly Embrace

    Arabic Hunting Poems

    Translated by James E. Montgomery ...
    by al-Muʿtazz Ibn ...
    Series Book 106 - Library of Arabic Literature
    A collection of poems about nature and powerTo Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were ... Read more

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    Poems

    by A. E. Stallings ...
    Narrated by A. E. Stallings ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 4 min

    A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator.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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • Selected Writings

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  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    by Anicius Boethius ...
    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Read more

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