Oracle Figures

Poetry. "Whether reading in sand the movements of a snake, or opening a book by chance to a significant phrase, one is made to adjust one's eyes to the glimmering darkness, as traditional narrative is stripped away, replaced by a sustained visionary lyricism, the four sections resembling a mandala. While slowly, inexorably, and astonishingly, ORACLE FIGURES 'tightens like a slipknot around nothing and undoes itself,' the end is still to renew our vision of the world" -Arthur Sze. Eric Pankey has, with previous books, won the Poetry Award from the Library of Virginia and the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets.Pankey, Eric is the author of 'Oracle Figures', published 2003 under ISBN 9781931337076 and ISBN 1931337071.