The Poetry Book Society Winter Special Commendation 2022 'The
ancients taught me how to sound modern,' A.E. Stallings said in an
interview. 'They showed me that technique was not the enemy of
urgency, but the instrument.' For her, 'technique' is rooted in
traditions of strict forms and metres, an interest that sets her
apart as modern - and American - in challenging ways, for being on
the face of it old-fashioned, yet ambitiously experimental among
the forms she uses. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she lives in
Athens, Greece. Her poems come out of life's dailiness - as a wife,
mother, teacher, an expatriate between languages, a brilliant
translator of ancient and modern Greek. She also translates Latin,
her most notable large work being the Penguin Lucretius, translated
into fourteeners. Being a poet in Greece entails, for her, being
part of that world. She was among volunteers helping refugees as
they arrived in Greece, and their experience haunted her to write,
'My love, I'm grateful tonight / Our listing bed isn't a raft /
Precariously adrift / As we dodge the coast guard light...' The
sharp quatrain commends the observation to memory. The poems,
without self-indulgence or confession, are intimate as they address
'My love', children or friends.
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