A. E. Stallings’ poems in Hapax, her second full-length collection, are striking in form and subject. Many pair contemporary formalism with allusions to Greek mythology. · Hapax by A.E. Stallings is a joy to read, especially for those who, like me, love strict form poems. While on occasion you can tell that some of the rhymes or lines are a bit forced so as to fit the form overall Stallings is highly successful and masterful at using her forms to the greatest advantage. · 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 Brand: Northwestern University Press.
A. E. Stallings. The literary achievements of A.E. Stallings -- award-winning poet and translator, noted essayist and reviewer - go hand in hand with the high regard Stallings' readers, critics, and her fellow poets and translators on both sides of the Atlantic have for the Georgia-born writer and her work. Hapax () won the Poets. By: Gabrielle Bates. As a junior in college, I took a class that would change the course of my life, in which we read four contemporary collections of poetry: When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz, Crush by Richard Siken, Rookery by Traci Brimhall, and HAPAX by A.E. Stallings. When I encountered A.E. Stallings' poems for the first time that fateful semester, one of my eyebrows rose. HAPAX BY A.E. STALLINGS Reviewed by Steffen Horstmann Hapax, by A.E. Stallings Triquarterly Books () 90 pages $ Since the appearance of her first book Archaic Smile (winner of the Richard Wilbur Award for ), American expatriate A.E. Stallings has become widely known for her.
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"). A.E. (Alicia) Stallings grew up in Decatur, Georgia. She studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. Her poetry collections include Like (), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Olives (), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Hapax (); and Archaic Smile (), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and finalist for both the. The first line of “Aftershocks,” the first poem in Hapax, reads: “We are not in the same place after all.” And indeed, the rest of this highly polished second collection of verse by A. E. Stallings bears out that realization by offering new, and occasionally daring, plateaus from which to see traditional poetic forms used to engage the complex and protean nature of contemporary life.
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