Eric Pankey

Augury (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From award-winning poet and author of Crow-Work, a collection exploring the presence of the divine in the seemingly ordinary. The ancient Romans practiced augury, reading omens in bird's flight patterns. In the poems of Augury, revelation is found in nature's smallest details: a lizard's quick movements, a tree scarred by lighting, the white curve of a snail's shell. Here the sensory world and the imagined one collide in unexpected and wonderful ways, as Pankey scrutinizes the physical for meaning, and that meaning for truth. With uncommon grace, each of Pankey's precise lyrics advances our shared ontological questions and expresses our deepest contradictions. In a world of mystery, should we focus on finding meaning or creating it? How can the known-and the unknown- be captured in language? Augury is a masterful and magical collection from a poet of stirring intelligence, "a book of stones unstitched from the wolf's belly." Praise for Augury "A darkly luminous book by a poet at the height of his considerable poetic power." -Kathy Fagan, author of Moving & St. Rage "This is a book I will keep close at hand, alongside the best work of Montale, Dickinson, Celan, and Stevens. This is a book one will turn to again and again." -Rebecca Dunham, author of Cold Pastoral "Each ethereal image he weaves into his work is delicately curated, whittled down through his attention to sound. . . . Pankey's poems destabilize as they straddle time and place, and he looks askance at the narrow way in which language is often viewed." -Publishers Weekly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571319401
• Artikelnr.: 56823574

Autorenporträt

Eric Pankey is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently Crow-Work. He is the recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Library of Virginia Literary Award. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Field, Gettysburg Review, and Poetry Daily, as well as numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2011 (edited by Kevin Young). He is currently a professor of English and Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
AUGURY
SPECULATION ON SUFFERING
ORACLE BONES
SPECULATION ON A STAR-NURSERY
EPIPHENOMENON
SPECULATION ON THE HISTORY OF DRAWING
ELEGY FOR CY TWOMBLY
THE FIG
LOST
DROPPED STITCHES
GHOST SHIP or UNION OF THE TORUS AND THE SPHERE
AT SENANQUE ABBEY
SPECULATION ON THE DARK AGES
SYNOPSIS OF A BATTLE
SPECULATION ON MELANCHOLIA
PROOFS AND REFUTATIONS
THE FRAGILE INSTANT THE NIGHT LIGHTS UP
READING MONTALE IN PROVENCE
SPECULATION ON THE LITTLE ICE AGE
DOUBLE EXPOSURE
LOOSE LEAVES OF UNPURSUED SPECULATIONS
SPECULATION ON THE PRESENT TENSE
THIS IS THE HOUR
TWO STUDIES FOR A PARABLE
SPECULATION ON IMMANENCE
REMOTE SENSING
SPECULATION ON THE WEIGHT OF YESTERDAY
NOON OUTSIDE THE CITY WALL
ARS POETICA
SPECULATION ON THE ABSENT GOD
THE LITTLE VILLAGE
CREATION MYTH
INTELLIGENCE
AT THE END OF THE LAST GLACIAL PERIOD
HIGH PASTURE
BURNT OFFERING
VESPERS
SPECULATION ON THE VOLCANO
PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPH
ANOTHER TIME
SPECULATION ON INVISIBILITY
SPECULATION ON CAUSE AND EFFECT
THE CHANGELING
KANSAS CITY 1969
STASIS IN MOTION or THE SHOWER SCENE IN DOUGLAS GORDAN's 24 HOUR PSYCHO
LASTS A HALF-HOUR
ANEMOGRAPH
ST. LOUIS ELEGY
THE FRICTION BETWEEN A STRING AND BOW CALLS FORTH A PLAINTIVE HYMN
STUDY FOR "THE BATTLE OF THE REBEL ANGELS"
SPECULATION ON THE AFTERLIFE
ANOTHER SPECULATION ON THE AFTERLIFE
SOUVENIR DE VOYAGE
Acknowledgments
Notes