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Trace

by Eric Pankey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781571314499
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Milkweed Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: Milkweed Editions
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  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: USD 16.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 114 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

Eric Pankey's arresting ninth collection of poems, Trace, sits at the threshold between faith and doubt--between the visible and the invisible, the sayable and the ineffable, the physical and the metaphysical.

In Trace, Pankey creates images of both stark beauty and stark truth. The skeleton of a burning home becomes a children's drawing of a house. The waning moon wears a mask, sheds grit, disappears in "straw effigy." And the departure of a loved one is compared to the retreat of a glacier--leaving behind an exposed and scarred speaker. As the collection progresses, it maps a journey into deep depression, confronting one man's struggle to overcome that condition's smothering weight and presence. With remarkable clarity and complexity, Trace also charts the poet's attempt to be inspired, to breathe again, to give breath and life to words.

Ever solemn, ever existential, Pankey's poems find us at our most vulnerable, the moment when we as humans--believers and nonbelievers alike--must ultimately pause to question the uncertain fate of our souls.

Eric Pankey is the author of eight previous collections of poetry, most recently The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems 1984-2008 and Reliquaries. He is the recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, a Library of Virginia Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Field, Gettysburg Review, and Poetry Daily, as well as numerous anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2011 (edited by Kevin Young). He is currently Professor of English and Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

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