Pankey is known for his elegant lyrics and classical purity of phrasing. This is his sixth book (we wooed him away from Knopf), showing a poet in mid-career whose work is moving in the direction of greater openness and economy of expression. John Taylor in the Antioch Review called Pankey's work "an arduous spiritual 'pilgrimage' of the highest metaphysical order."
Eric Pankey was educated at the University of Missouri and the University of Iowa. His awards include the Academy of American Poet's Walt Whitman Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Fairfax, VA, and teaches at George Mason University.