Lunar Calendar: New and Selected Prose Poems, 1984-2026 - Paperback

by Eric Pankey (Author)

A book-length collection of new prose poems together with selections from the poet's previous works.

Lunar Calendar draws together prose poems from Eric Pankey's many collections together with a book-length collection of new poems. While written in prose form, these poems maintain the lively lyric intensity of Pankey's verse poems, allowing for mystery and uncanniness, for wandering and wondering, for speculation and revery. David Keplinger writes, "Eric Pankey's ... prose poetry [is] deeply faithful to the European roots of the genre ... This work is spectacular." Rachel Eliza Griffiths says of Pankey's poems, "Like water, fire, air, memory and earth, these prose poems gather elementally into a revelatory force." Ilya Kaminsky writes, "This is a book of visions wherein mystery attempts to be clear. How? Clarity, clarity is our deepest mystery Mahmoud Darwish once told us." Andew Zawacki notes that Pankey's is "a beguiling book of inventories and elegies, of fugue and fever dream, of uncanny conundrums and para-fairy tales, in which doors open onto doors..."

Author Biography

Eric Pankey, whose honors include the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and the New Measure Poetry Prize, is the author of many collections of poetry and a book of essays. His writing has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Professor Emeritus of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University.