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Title: |
The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice |
| Sub-title: |
A Tiny Homeric Epic |
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| By (author): |
A E Stallings |
| ISBN10-13: |
1589881427 : 9781589881426 |
| Illustrations: |
illus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
260x180mm |
| Pages: |
109 |
| Weight: |
.234 Kg. |
| Published: |
Paul Dry Books, Inc - October 2019 |
| List Price: |
20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry |
| From the award-winning poet and translator A. E. Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, The Battle is the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species. This dark but delightful parable about the foolishness of war is illustrated throughout in striking drawings by Grant Silverstein. The clever introduction is written from the point of view of a mouse who argues that perhaps the unknown author of the fable is not a human after all: Who better than a mouse, then, to compose our diminutive, though not ridiculous, epic, a mouse born and bred in a library, living off lamp oil, ink, and the occasional nibble of a papyrus, constantly perched on the shoulder of some scholar or scholiast of Homer, perhaps occasionally whispering in his ear? Mouse, we may remember, is only one letter away from Muse. |
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"A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings’ elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect choice to honor the mousy Muse."—Emily Wilson
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"The characters of this dazzling epic spring to life (and death!) in Grant Silverstein's exquisitely detailed drawings."—Ann Temkin, Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
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"A delightful translation of an overlooked gem of ancient Greek satire."—A.M. Juster
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"[O]ne of the strongest talents to emerge in recent years."―Poetry
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"Through her technical dexterity and graceful fusion of content and form, Stallings is revealing the timelessness of poetic expression and antiquity's relevance for today."―MacArthur Foundation
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"Stallings demonstrates formidable confidence in her technical skill, exploring fixed forms, tinkering with traditions, and creating her own combinations of meter and rhyme. She also takes chances."―Harvard Review on Hapax
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"A. E. Stallings is not a perfect poet but a poet of perfection, with the patience and courage to bring to her poems what American poetry so rarely knows how to give, and American readers hardly dare to receive; lapidary finish of both form and reading."―The Yale Review
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"The most gifted formalist of her generation . . . There are haters of such pleasures, to be sure; they are legion. But I think the poetry of A. E. Stallings will outlast them."―The Hudson Review
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