This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings
PBS Special Commendation Winter 2022 Christopher Cessac and stop for a coffee

and stop for a coffee break whenever you feel like it

poems of war and in memoriam

A dramatic and enthralling new collection from acclaimed poet Fran Lock

we meet and share the experiences of a remarkable girl who shows us how quiet courage prevails

there emerge luxuriant and tender portraits of a woman battling for survival

This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings<br><b>PBS Special Commendation Winter 2022</b> Christopher Cessac and stop for a coffee'The ancients taught me how to sound modern,' Alicia Elsbeth 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 meters, 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. Born and raised in Georgia, she