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This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings (Review)

By Timothy Sandefur

Dec 03, 2022
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022
213 pp., $28

A. E. Stallings—perhaps America’s best living poet—doesn’t live in America. She moved to Greece in 1999, the year her first book, Archaic Smile, was published. And she’s used that combination of American and European, ancient and modern, to fine effect in poems that bring together the classical and contemporary w…

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