
Crow-Work
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"What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?" This central question drives Crow-Work, Eric Pankey's ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art.
Through subjects as diverse as Bruegel's Procession to Calvary, Anish Kapoor's Healing of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio's series of severed heads, and James Turrell's experimentation with light and color, the author travels to an impossible past, despite being firmly rooted in the present, to seek out "the songbird in every thorn thicket" of the artist's work. Short bursts of lyrical beauty burn away "like coils of incense ash"; bodies in the light of a cave flicker, coalesce, and disappear. By capturing the ephemeral beauty of life in these poems, Crow-Work seeks not only to explain great art, but also to embody it.
Praise for Crow-Work
"Eric Pankey's sensibility is an unerringly generous one: he is always willing to step first onto unsteady ground, to test it for those who might follow. The poems of Crow-Work, like good gleaners, seek out possibility and sustenance. They are skilled, deft, and dazzlingly alert. Just when I think they have brought me as close as possible to the dark and unknowable things that make awe possible, they bring me closer. The journey is unnerving, intimate, and thrilling." -Mary Szybist
"The delicacy and accuracy we have come to expect from Eric Pankey are here on display and as deftly deployed as ever. Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem." -C. Dale Young
"[A] wonderful exploration of the emotional power of art." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review, PW Picks)
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- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Ash
- Spirit Figures
- When We Meet on that Beautiful Shore
- The Book of an Hour
- Working in the Dark
- Crow-Work
- The Problem with the First Person
- Study for Salome Dancing Before Herod
- Caravaggio's Severed Heads
- My Brother's Insomnia
- My Brother's Ghost
- To Open the Body
- Two-Part Lamentation
- Fragments from an Excavation
- Dark was the Night
- June Depression
- Home Remedy
- The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
- Depth of Field
- Beneath Venus
- Preparatory Drawing for an Unfinished Triptych
- The Tended
- Ars Poetica
- The Original Scriptures No Longer Exist, Merely Translations of Translations of Corrupted Texts
- The Imagined Space Beyond
- The Dictates of Gravity
- Still Life
- Hermetica
- Objects in Giorgio Morandi's Studio
- The Language of Flowers
- Passage
- Venetian Light
- Essay on Idleness
- The Other Side of the Argument
- Return of the Exile
- "The Beautiful Gardener" or "The Creation of Eve"
- Rehearsal for an Elegy
- The Poppy
- Palimpsest of Chalked Equations and Erasures
- Fragment
- Autumn Drawing
- Bone Fragments
- If we Never Meet Again this Side of Heaven
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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