Josh Stallings Livres

This Selected includes highlights from Stallings' first four books and also new poems never before collected in book form. A Poetry Book Society Winter Special Commendation 2022.

Set on New Year's Eve in 1976 San Francisco, a group of five friends known as glitter kids embark on a wild adventure in a Firebird, leaving behind a trail of crime, including a trunk full of cash and illegal firearms. As they hit the road, they embrace their youth and the thrill of freedom, embodying the spirit of being Young Americans. The story captures their carefree attitude and the allure of rebellion against a backdrop of disco culture and a life of felonies.

ONE OF THE 10 BEST CRIME FICTION NOVELS OF 2021―LIBRARY JOURNAL 2021 CRIME FICTION PICKS OF THE YEAR―DIVERSE VOICES BOOK REVIEW HONORABLE MENTION, THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF 2021―CRIMEREADS HONORABLE MENTION, THE BEST NOIR FICTION OF 2021―CRIMEREADS ONE OF THE "MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME BOOKS OF 2021."―CRIMEREADS PICK OF THE MONTH―MysteryPeople Does your past define you forever? That's the question LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen must answer after he gets in the middle of a standoff between two uniformed officers and Cisco, an intellectually disabled man. Cisco is found armed and standing over the body of a man with Down syndrome. Cisco swears the dead man was his good friend, and he didn’t hurt him, but in his earlier life, Cisco had been gang member, a brilliant and brutal killer. After he was badly beaten, brain injuries left him him―if he is to be believed―with the intellectual intelligence of a child. Madsen's search for the truth leads him through the special needs community, East LA gang life, and pits him up against the corrupt LA Sheriff’s Department. More than a police procedural, Tricky explores questions of human Whether a man can change, for better or worse, and whether redemption is possible.

A. E. Stallings has established herself as one of the best American poets of her generation. In addition to a lively dialogue with both the contemporary and ancient culture of her adopted homeland, Greece, this new collection features poems that, in her inimitable voice, address the joys and anxieties of marriage and motherhood.

*A Fusion of Horizons* Unrolled Stone proposes to do nothing less than treat the Rolling Stones for the first time ever as a genuine cultural phenomenon worthy of what might be called ‘philosophical’ attention. The fundamental significance of this analysis acquires its incisive shape on the scaffolding of Heidegger’s Being and Time. Even though the focal point of the existential analytic employed focuses around the late Brian Jones, still the book is designed to situate the truth-claim of the Rolling Stones within the broader horizon of a universal radical uprootedness which constitutes the necessary point of departure for any serious reflection concerning the very meaning of existence in today’s belongingless historical epoch.

A new edition of A. E. Stallings's first book of poems, which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award. In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life (like losing an umbrella or fishing with one’s father), and she infuses the latter with the magic of myth and history. With the skill of a scholar and translator and the playful, pristine composition of a poet, Stallings bridges the gap between these two distant worlds. Stallings “invigorates the old forms and makes them sing” (Meryl Natchez, ZYZZYVA) in her poetry, and the scope and origins of her talents are on full display in the acclaimed author's first collection. The poems of Archaic Smile are sung with a timeless, technically impeccable, and utterly true voice.