
Owl of Minerva
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Taking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom and her companion bird, Owl of Minerva turns astonishingly precise attention to the physical world, scouring it for evidence of the spiritual as the poet travels through such places as Appalachia, New England, Venice, Spain, the Caribbean, and the American Midwest. Along the way, Eric Pankey ponders mortality, religious narratives and iconography, the continued press of childhood on the present, and the simultaneous violence and beauty of the natural world.
At the book's core are three ambitious poems titled "The Complete List of Everything," which together offer an extended vision of American longing and connection-as well as a window into the sort of compendium of images and moments a sustained devotion to poetry can yield. "The hope was to construct // A coherent totality of meaning from odds / And ends," Pankey writes, and so much of this book is about the difficult work of constructing meaning from the available material all around us. This book is an extraordinary example of lyric-meditative journaling-a large and profound collection by a brilliant poet writing at the height of his powers.
"Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem." -C.Dale Young, author of Prometeo
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- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I.
- The Complete List of Everything (An Excerpt)
- II.
- The Set of the Whole
- Cold Mountain
- The Enclosed Field
- Spell for Calling Down Rain
- One Enters to Find the Divine
- To Knock at an Empty House
- The Weight of Light
- Fever Dream
- Dream with Han-Shan
- Thinking About the Afterlife
- III.
- Island Refuge
- Iceberg in Mist
- A Map of Venice
- Seeing Things
- The Vernacular
- To Confirm the Earth's Rotation
- Three Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs
- Study for "The Day of Judgment"
- Pemaquid Point
- The Wapsipinicon
- IV.
- The Complete List of Everything (Recovered Loose-leaf Pages)
- V.
- The Last Sunday in Lent
- Another Reading
- Melancholia
- Arcadian Inscriptions
- Parable with My Father as a Boy
- A Public Education
- My Father Amid the Shades
- Book of Hours
- Trouble in Mind
- The Side Effects of Mimicry
- VI.
- The Intervening Years
- Lines at Midsummer
- The Attention an Enigma Demands
- Elsewhere
- Meditation at Rio Deva
- Sojourn and Transit
- In the Presence of Animals
- A Map of the Frontier
- As Through a Sheer Curtain
- Souvenirs
- VII.
- The Complete List of Everything (An Addendum)
- VIII.
- The Continuous Present
- Above at and Just Below Sea Level
- Divination Beneath Thunder
- Plain Sight
- In the Ever-Freshened Keys
- All Shall be Restored
- Sanctuary
- Owl of Minerva
- Debris of an October Evening
- Dream Translation
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
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