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OverviewWritten and gathered together in an era of pandemic, rising authoritarianism, war, and climate crisis, the prose poems in Eric Pankey's The History of the Siege chronicle the eschatological age in which we live, where everyone, as the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert argues, ""suffers from a loss of the sense of time."" Pankey, in his third collection of prose poems, continues to investigate the formal and rhetorical possibilities of this already subversive genre. In a 1987 interview, Zbigniew Herbert said, ""It is vanity to think that one can influence the course of history by writing poetry. It is not the barometer that changes the weather."" While these poems—sometimes solemn, sometimes hermetic, sometimes funny—do not attempt to influence history, they do hope to capture what it is like to live within history—and it looks like, as the old song says, we're in for nasty weather. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric PankeyPublisher: Codhill Press Imprint: Codhill Press Dimensions: Width: 11.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.10cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781949933246ISBN 10: 1949933245 Pages: 130 Publication Date: 15 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNo One Treats You like a Mother When Your Mother Is Dead I Stayed All Night in the Cabin The Afterlife The Dress Native As You Are to Nothing The Entrepreneur As a Thunderhead Gathers With Words My Mother Set the House on Fire Infiltration & Seepage Exaggerated Gestures A Stop at Willoughby: Twilight Zone, Season One, Episode 30 A Weathered Ladder Celadon Nearsighted Pocketsize Notebook with a Black Elastic Strap to Hold It Closed The River Still Ragged with Ice Floes Redemption Song Eurydice Which Is to Say Lilith A Grid over the Debris Field The Forgotten Holdall Interference Pattern Recently Recovered Pages from the Complete List of Everything Ash-Grit Shallow Ford in the River To Render the Impression of Perspective Lost The Call-in Show Buried For Now A Trauma The Invisible Man Balanced on the Chair's Back Legs From the Get-Go As in Any Marriage Eight Preparatory Drawings The Checkpoint Without Likeness The Old Devil in the Tree The Encounter Feedback & Interference Novel Microbes in the Ice Melt To No One in Particular The Boredom that Precedes the Rapture Last Radio Playing Without Mystery Another World Afloat on Fire A Large Expanse of Glass Set Upon Twin Sawhorses The Loneliness of a Bridge The Weight Some Will Tell You Their Secret Yet The Past Hardly Existed Gates Swung Open One After Another to Admit Us An Echo & Its Glyph Shelter in Place A Parable Waylaid Again Animula The Spectrum's Violet End On the Fulcrum of Of I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge Aria Trust-Building Exercise Border Crossing A Pre-existing Condition Hearing Voices The Remainder Repeat-to-Fade The Future Perfect: A Fugue Self-Care Oblique Strategies The Sick Boy The History of the Siege Acknowledgments Dedications Notes Additional PraiseReviewsAuthor InformationEric Pankey is the author of sixteen previous collections of poetry and a collection of essays. 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. He is Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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