This Afterlife by A. E. Stallings -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph From Archaic Smile (1999)

A Postcard from Greece Hades Welcomes His Bride Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother Eurydice’s Footnote How the Demons Were Assimilated & Became Productive Citizens Cardinal Numbers A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood Homecoming Consolation for Tamar Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses Crazy to Hear the Tale Again (The Fall of Troy) Medea, Homesick The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles Tour of the Labyrinth Daphne Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena The Mistake The Tantrum Fishing Study in White The Machines Mourn the Passing of People The Man Who Wouldn’t Plant Willow Trees

From Hapax (2006)

Aftershocks The Dollhouse Lovejoy Street Sine Qua Non Last Will Arrowhead Hunting Ubi Sunt Lament for the Eccentric Museums of My Childhood Thyme The Charioteer Asphodel An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro The Modern Greek for “Nightmare” Is Ephialtes Dead Language Lesson First Love: A Quiz “To Speke of Wo That Is in Mariage” Fragment Evil Eye Empty Icon Frame Bouzouki, from Exile: Picture Postcards Explaining an Affinity for Bats Another Lullaby for Insomniacs Lullaby Near the Railroad Tracks Song for the Women Poets Jet Lag Clean Monday Prelude Ultrasound

From Olives (2012)

Olives Jigsaw Puzzle Recitative Sublunary Four Fibs Deus Ex Machina Telephonophobia The Argument Burned On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Ascribed to Martin Luther Two Violins The Ghost Ship Handbook of the Foley Artist Extinction of Silence The Cenotaph Pop Music Persephone to Psyche, from Three Poems for Psyche Fairy-Tale Logic The Catch Containment Accident Waiting to Happen Tulips Alice in the Looking Glass Umbrage Hide and Seek Sea Girls Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason, Aged Three The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons Another Bedtime Story OLIVES

From Like (2018)

After a Greek Proverb Ajar Alice, Bewildered Art Monster Cast Irony Colony Collapse Disorder Denouement Dyeing the Easter Eggs Empathy Epic Simile First Miracle For Atalanta Glitter Half of an Epic Simile Not Found in Hesiod The Last Carousel Like, the Sestina Lost and Found Memorial (Mnemosyno) Momentary Pencil Placebo Appendix A: Useful Phrases in Arabic, Farsi/Dari, and Greek, from Refugee Fugue The Rosehead Nail Scissors Sea Urchins Selvage Shattered Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda Silence Book Omega, from Similes, Suitors The Stain Sunset, Wings Swallows Whethering

“Lagniappe” of Uncollected Poems ( 1999–2017)

Fear of Happiness Chairs Song: The Rivers of Hell Jack-O’-Lanterns Mosaic Once Depicting Arianist Saints The Magi After Reading the Biography Savage Beauty Daphne, After The Barnacle Learning to Read Greek The Arsenic Hour

Uncollected Translations

Yannis Keats Frieze Upon a Line of Foreign Verse

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