{"product_id":"vestiges-notes-responses-essays-1988-2018-paperback","title":"Vestiges: Notes, Responses, \u0026 Essays 1988-2018 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Pankey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If only words were salt--soluble, savory, vital, electric,\" Eric Pankey writes in \"Variations on Hadrian's Animula,\" one of many virtuosic works in \u003cem\u003eVestiges: Notes, Responses, and Essays 1988 - 2018\u003c\/em\u003e. In this diverse collection of lyrical prose, Pankey assays his personal-poetic history with passion, brilliance, and grace. He considers the works of many great poets--Dickinson, Stevens, Donne, Hopkins, Merwin, Justice, Levis, and Lorca, to name just a few--invoking them as teachers and guides. As much about language as the unutterable, sight as the unseen, Vestiges is a gorgeous, vital collection. --Danielle Cadena Deulen, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Riots\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVestiges: Notes, Responses, and Essays 1988 - 2018\u003c\/em\u003e maps the mind of one of our best lyrical poets and thinkers. In these concise and nuanced works of prose, Eric Pankey meditates on such subjects as spiritual faith, the poetic image, memory, language, duende, and silence in poetry. Pankey is a quester, a searcher for truth, so it's no surprise that in Vestiges he eschews nailed-down arguments and grand arrivals, prioritizing the question and the journey towards \"the unsayable, the untouchable . . . the unknowable.\" He reminds us that mystery and uncertainty are not weaknesses, but essential aspects of a life lived richly in both art and faith. --Brian Barker, author of \u003cem\u003eVanishing Acts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Pankey muses, \"What is the divine? How is it made manifest? Where does it reside?\" Revisiting the lyric impulse in a post-religious generation, \u003cem\u003eVestiges\u003c\/em\u003e ponders the Romantic lyric subject in light of postmodern skepticism with allusions to Biblical contexts, illuminating the phenomenon of wonder in a material yet epistemologically unstable world: \"In the lyric, language is both the ritual and the sacrifice at the moment's altar.\" Guided by an inner compass of memory and desire, psalms and lamentations, restoration and revival, we unearth in ourselves \"not a spark, but a splinter of God in each of us, inflamed, working its way to the surface.\" This book, a revitalizing act of faith and inspiration, is a marvelous gift to us. --Karen An-hwei Lee, author of \u003cem\u003ePhyla of Joy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eERIC PANKEY is also the author of ten collections of poetry and Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47327221022969,"sku":"9781643171050","price":22.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QUgrNWlDU0J5QThwQ2czY0hiNytsdz09.webp?v=1769577862","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/vestiges-notes-responses-essays-1988-2018-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}