Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Алісія Елсбет Столлінгз" in Ukrainian language version.
For all of Stallings’ formal virtuosity, few of her poems are strictly metrically regular. Indeed, one of the pleasant surprises of Archaic Smile is the number of superb poems in the gray zone between free and blank verse.
The meter and rhyme unfold elegantly, but at the expense of idiom
[her best poems in the collection] match prosodic talent with intensely rendered feelings
When she unleashes her technical gifts upon poems in which she builds a new narrative instead of building upon an old one, Stallings achieves a restrained, stark poise that is threatening even by New Formalism standards.
For all of Stallings’ formal virtuosity, few of her poems are strictly metrically regular. Indeed, one of the pleasant surprises of Archaic Smile is the number of superb poems in the gray zone between free and blank verse.
The meter and rhyme unfold elegantly, but at the expense of idiom
[her best poems in the collection] match prosodic talent with intensely rendered feelings
When she unleashes her technical gifts upon poems in which she builds a new narrative instead of building upon an old one, Stallings achieves a restrained, stark poise that is threatening even by New Formalism standards.
