Oracle FiguresHardcover, 15 April 2003

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.