Trace: Poems

By Eric Pankey

His arresting ninth collection of poems, Eric Pankey’s Trace locates itself at a threshold between faith and doubtbetween the visible and the invisible, the say-able and the ineffable, the physical and the metaphysical. Also a map of the poet’s journey into a deep depression, these poems confront one man’s struggle to overcome depression’s smothering weight and presence. And with remarkable clarity and complexity, Trace charts the poet’s attempt to be inspired, to breathe again, to give breath and life to words. Ever solemn, ever existential, Pankey’s poems find us at our most vulnerable, the moment when we as humansbelievers and nonbelievers alikemust ultimately pause to question the uncertain fate of our souls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Release date: Jan 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781571318732

Eric Pankey

ERIC PANKEY is also the author of ten collections of poetry and Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.