{"product_id":"owl-of-minerva-poems-paperback","title":"Owl of Minerva: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Pankey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Pankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it.\" --DAN BEACHY-QUICK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom and her companion bird, \u003cem\u003eOwl of Minerva \u003c\/em\u003eturns 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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Pankey\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eAugury\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of a Walt Whitman Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Library of Virginia Literary Award. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eField\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and Poetry Daily, as well as numerous anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 2011\u003c\/i\u003e (edited by Kevin Young). He is currently a professor of English and Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42113923678343,"sku":"9781571315106","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6df6416ee61c9b6b978c16d44235d0d1.webp?v=1732493559","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/owl-of-minerva-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}