Augury : Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pankey, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2017.

: Milkweed Editions, 2017.

Summary:

From celebrated poet Eric Pankey, 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.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

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 Sénanque 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 Gordon'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 Fall of the Rebel Angels

Speculation on the Afterlife

Another Speculation on the Afterlife

Souvenir De Voyage

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-57131-940-9

OCLC:

979994662