This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings
PBS Special Commendation Winter 2022 wales ’ Claire Trévien

’ Claire Trévien

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Neis’ queer gaze on witchcraft

This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings<br><b>PBS Special Commendation Winter 2022</b> wales ’ Claire Trévien'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