Oracle Figures

This is Pankey's sixth book, showing a poet in mid-career who is known for his elegant lyrics and classical purity of phrasing. John Taylor in "The Antioch Review called Pankey's work "an arduous spiritual pilgrimage' of the highest metaphysical order."

I.

The Reconstruction of the Fictive Space

1

(1)

Oracle Figures

2

(12)

Striking the Copper Bowl to Imitate the Singing Dragon

14

(2)

Epitaph

16

(1)

Improvisation

17

(2)

The Coordinates

19

(1)

The Flame

20

(5)

II.

The Old Brickyard Quarry

25

(1)

A Hemisphere of Stars

26

(2)

Shades Before an Offering

28

(1)

My Mother Amid the Shades

29

(1)

Point of Departure

30

(1)

The Constellations of Autumn

31

(2)

Dusk Colloquy with a Ghost

33

(4)

III.

Night Fishing

37

(3)

Shelter

40

(7)

Eclipse of the Sun Observed Through a Pinhole

47

(2)

The Lesson of Snakes

49

(1)

A Dead Crow on Good Friday

50

(1)

For This World

51

(2)

History

53

(4)

IV.

Valediction

57

(1)

Materia Prima

58

(7)

Piazza S. Spirito No. 9

65

(1)

Venetian Afterthought

66

(1)

Tableau

67

(5)

Final Thought

72

(2)

Leave-taking Above the Missouri

74

(2)

Acknowledgements

76

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