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May 28, 2020

“Consistently witty, smart, and entertaining.”

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This Afterlife: Selected Poems

By A. E. Stallings
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
240 pages
$30

“This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings’s four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across years and experience, creating a complex music of harmony, dissonance, and counterpoint… Many of these poems unfold in the mytho-domestic sphere, through the eyes of Penelope or Pandora, Alice in Wonderland or the poet herself.”

~ the publisher

In the Shadow of Vesuvius