Owl of Minerva Poems by Eric Pankey (Paperback Book)

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\u201CPankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it.\u201D \u2014DAN BEACHY-QUICK\nTaking 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, 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.\nAt the book\u2019s core are three ambitious poems titled \u201CThe Complete List of Everything,\u201D which together offer an extended vision of American longing and connection\u2014as well as a window into the sort\n\nOwl of Minerva\nPoems\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease no;