Poetry. Bone-spare, rhythmicall rigorous, and quietly intense, Eric Pankey's new book ORACLE FIGURES is a dazzling feat, a spellbinding journey that keeps looping us back to the beginning of the world"-Arthur Sze. "The poem is the human eye that, from the theater's back row, seems goat-like in the devil mask"-from the poem "Improvisation." Eric Pankey is the author of five previous books, including For the New Year, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Cenotaph, which won the Poetry Award from the Library of Virginia. A professor of English at George Mason University, he lives with his wife and daughter in Fairfax, Virginia.

Author City: Fairfax, VA USA

Eric Pankey is the author of seven previous books: For the New Year, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, Heartwood, Apocypha, The Late Romances, Cenotaph, which won the Poetry Award from the Library of Virginia, Oracle Figures and Reliquaries. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. A professor of English at George Mason University, he lives with his wife and daughter in Fairfax, Virginia.