Alicia stallings biography

Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet, translator, and essayist.
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Alicia Elsbeth Stallings grew up in Decatur, Georgia, with her parents and sister.

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2011 McArthur Fellow Alicia Elizabeth Stallings is an American poet, and also a renowned translator of the poems of others. From an early age, Stallings was captivated by classical civilizations and studied Classics at the University of Georgia...

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A. E. Stallings

American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968)

Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968)^[1] is an American poet, translator, and essayist.

Stallings has published five books of original verse: Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and This Afterlife (2022). She has published verse translations of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things) and Hesiod'sWorks and Days, both with Penguin Classics, and a translation of Batrachomyomachia (The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice).

She has been awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship,^[2] a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship^[3] and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry^[4] and the National Book Critics Circle Award.^[5] Stallings is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.^[6] On June 16, 2023, she was named the University of Oxford's 47th Professor of Poetry.^[7]^[8]

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A.E. Stallings

Biography

A.E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in Athens, Greece. She has published two books of poetry, Archaic Smile(1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax(2000). Her verse translation of Lucretius (in rhyming fourteeners!), The Nature of Things, was published by Penguin Classics in 2007. She lives with her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, and their small argonaut, Jason.

She has been compared to W.B. Yeats, Richard Wilbur and Robert Frost. Stallings’s keen eye for the mechanical details in poetry is just one of the reasons that she stands out among her peers. ‘Fairy-Tale Logic’ uses a distinct “a, b, b, a” rhyme scheme in the first stanza, and transitions to “a, a, b, b, a, a” in the last, creating a playful rhythm that goes well with the fantastical images that she uses: “the chin hairs of a man-eating goat”, “a dragon”, “an invisible cloak”, “the language of snakes”. It’s also clear that she enjoys writing a narrative: “Every night, we couldn’t sleep./ Our upstairs nei