Alias

Eric Pankey

Description

Alias is Eric Pankey’s second collection of prose poems from Free Verse Editions. The first, Dismantling the Angel, won the New Measure Poetry Prize. Pankey continues to investigate the flexibility and possibility of this literary genre, the prose poem, which Hermaine Riffaterre says has “an oxymoron for a name.” H. L. Hix has praised Pankey’s prose poems for their “elusive and luminous sentences” and how they “take the shape of fire.” Kevin Prufer has celebrated their meditations “on mystery, human sympathy, and the divine.” Cynthia Marie Hoffman says of these new poems, “One has the sense that Pankey sees beyond the visible, or sees both the visible and the invisible at once.”

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643171418
• Langue: English

Extrait

A L I A S

P R O S E P O E M S E R I C PA N K E Y

Free Verse Editions Edîted by Jon Tompson

ALIAS

PROSE POEMS

Eric Pankey

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forgetfulness is never complete —Jean Follaîn

. . .can you tell me were we’re eadin’? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon? —Bob Dylan

Contents

I. 3 Alîas 5 II. 7 Et în Arcadîa Ego 9 Exercîse în Intuîtîon 10 he Apprentîcesîp 11 Post-Dîluvîan 12 Outtakes fromhe Newlywed Game 13 Wat Is te Purpose of Your Vîsît? 14 Prospero în Exîle 15 he Late Sîft 16 he Oter Story About José 17 After te Rapture 18 To Fîx an Image în Memory 19 Speed Datîng 20 Lîlît As a Fîgure for te Moon 21 he Anvîl 22 False Sermon—True Story 23 Convalescence 24 III. 25 he Surveyor’s Map 27 Habîtatîon 28 To Document te Epemeral 29 he Unexpected Return 30 By Anoter Route 31 Nîgt Weddîng 44 From hîs Day Forward 45 Honeymoon at te Pîne Crest Motor Hotel and Cabîns 46 Cîldood 47 he heft 48

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Contents

Vîsîtîng Your Fater at te Hospîtal 49 he Sleeper 50 A Story Coalescîng 51 Not Good wît Faces 52 he Butcer 53 he Hyenas 54

IV. 55 he Return of Odysseus 57 Arîadne on Naxos 58 Cîrce’s Island 59 Lazarus 60 Between Solon and Cedar Rapîds on Hîgway One, 1984 61 Elegy wît Moonlît Doorway 62 Catalogue Raîsonné 63 Asked to Account for Hîs Wereabouts 64 Depîctîon Wîtout a Subject 65 A Slîpknot as It Slîps 66 Exposures 67 Onlookers at te Scene 68 he Closet 70 Core Samples 71 he Cange 72 he Mystery of te Ordînary 73 V. 75 Awaîtîng Electîon Day 77 After te Yard Sale Before te Parade 78 Mînor Arcana 79 he Swîneerd 80 he Angel Gabrîel Batîng în te Euprates 81 Mîdsummer’s Eve 82 Romantîc Landscape wît te Garden of Getsemane 83 Stîll Lît 84 he Open Gate 85 he Scool Nurse 86

Contents

About Hîs Past Lîves 87 An Errant Absence 88 Negatîve Latîtudes 89 he Arrîval 90 Valley of te Sadow 91 he Lîne Starts Here 92

VI. 93 Opus Postumous 95

Acknowledgments 97 About te Autor 101 Free Verse Edîtîons 103

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