Description: In this diverse collection of lyrical prose, Pankey considers the works of many great poets--Dickinson, Stevens, Donne, Hopkins, Merwin, Justice, Levis, and Lorca--invoking them as teachers and guides.nd guides.
Brief description: Eric Pankey is the author of ten previous collections of poetry, including most recently Alias: Prose Poems. Dismantling the Angel (2014) received the New Measure Poetry Prize. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Brown Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he teaches in the MFA and BFA programs in Creative Writing.