Frieze Frame

PRAISE FOR A. E. STALLINGS AND HER BOOKS: ""A.E. Stallings is that rare poet who can write in a traditional form (sonnets! sestinas!) without letting the form squeeze the life out of the poem. This Afterlife which selects from more than two decades of work, solidifies her virtuoso status. Much of the pleasure comes from her precise, imaginative eye."" ―Washington Post on This Afterlife ""Stallings's work imagines the poet as an artisan, and her poems satisfy in the way a handblown glass bowl satisfies; they have heft and shape; they rest solidly in the palm."" ―New York Times Book Review on This Afterlife ""[Stallings'] couplets . . . have a lively, nimble music that should captivate modern ears."" --Wall Street Journal on The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice ""Stallings' translation of this ancient epic is a delight: charming, witty, and vividly alive, with buoyant rhymes and eye-catching illustrations."" --Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe on The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice ""[Like] presents a diverse quiver of poems--arranged in alphabetical order--polished and sharpened by her typically innovative use of traditional verse forms, poised vocabulary, and a playful dexterous teasing-out of simile and metaphor."" --Los Angeles Review of Books on Like