Hapax Poems

Name: Hapax Poems
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ISBN: 9780810151710

ISBN-10: 0810151715

ISBN-13: 9780810151710

Edition: 2005

Authors: A. E. Stallings

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Hapaxis ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of "Aftershocks," this book explores what does and does not survive its "gone moment"--childhood ("The Dollhouse"), ancient artifacts ("Implements from the Grave of the Poet"), a marriage's lost moments of happiness ("Lovejoy Street"). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years. Her musical lyrics cover a range of subjects from love and family to characters and themes derived from classical Greek sources ("Actaeon" and "Sisyphus"). Employing…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 3/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396



Aftershocks


The dollhouse


Lovejoy Street


The village in the lake


Sine Qua Non


Last will


Arrowhead hunting


Ubi Sunt lament for the eccentric museums of my childhood


Thyme


Implements from the "tomb of the poet"


Visiting the grave of Rupert Brooke


The charioteer


Asphodel


An ancient dog grave, unearthed during construction of the Athens metro


Actaeon


The modern Greek for "nightmare" is Ephialtes


Dead language lesson


First love : a quiz


Mint


Nettles


Flying colors : flags of convenience


"To Speke of Wo that is in marriage"


Purgatory


Fragment


Failure


Noir


Alice, grown-up, at the cocktail party


Cassandra


Clean break


Evil eye


Apotropaic


Amateur iconography : resurrection


Empty icon frame


Exile : picture postcards


Minutes


Explaining an affinity for bats


Variations on an old standard


Bad news blues


Two rhymes for grown-ups


Another lullaby for insomniacs


Lullaby near the railroad tracks


On the nearest pass of Mars in sixty thousand years


XII Klassikal Lymnaeryx


Sisyphus


Song for the women poets


Jet lag


Clean Monday


The song rehearsal


Prelude


Ultrasound