{"product_id":"the-pear-as-one-example-9781931337397","title":"The Pear As One Example","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFans of an earlier generation of American poets, such as Elizabeth Bishop, A.R. Ammons, and Robert Bly, will find much to enjoy in this large volume of poetry that showcases an acute poetic prowess, capturing a range of heartfelt emotions and experiences. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e—NewPages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllows readers to observe the nuances of style and thematic continuities within this atuhor''s complex body of work... The poems within \u003ci\u003eThe Pear as One Example\u003c\/i\u003e invoke barren landscapes and unremarkeable objects, rendering them a gem-like concentration of subjective concepts, which shine with ''arctic, oblique light'' throughout. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Smartish Pace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book off ers a generous selection from Eric Pankey’s previous seven collections of poetry as well a book-length group of new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Pankey, language is a means of divination, of augury, of reading the world—the refracted past, the ephemeral present, and the mutable future. While these meditative poems are deeply philosophical, their subject is the world of things. In these poems, he explores the world by way of the body—the body as a marker of time, the body as a vessel of grief, the body as an ecstatic radiant filament. Like an alchemist, Pankey takes the elemental and transmutes it into the mythic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the center of many of these poems is a spiritual crisis. Pankey is like the man Flannery O’Connor describes in her essay, “Novelist and Believer,” who “can neither believe nor contain himself in disbelief and who searches desperately, feeling about in all experience for the lost God.” Each of these poems is a pilgrimage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are the strange, arranged marriage that gave rise to American poetry, Pankey is their off spring: at once expansive and concise, clear and hermetic, and visionary and mystic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1959, \u003cb\u003eEric Pankey\u003c\/b\u003e directed the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis for many years. For the last decade, he has taught in the MFA program at George Mason University, where he is professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ausable Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49536081789271,"sku":"9781931337397","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781931337397.jpg?v=1731900821","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-pear-as-one-example-9781931337397","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}