{"product_id":"9781571319401","title":"Augury: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning poet and author of \u003ci\u003eCrow-Work\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection exploring the presence of the divine in the seemingly ordinary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    The ancient Romans practiced augury, reading omens in bird's flight patterns. In the poems of \u003ci\u003eAugury\u003c\/i\u003e, revelation is found in nature's smallest details: a lizard's quick movements, a tree scarred by lighting, the white curve of a snail's shell. Here the sensory world and the imagined one collide in unexpected and wonderful ways, as Pankey scrutinizes the physical for meaning, and that meaning for truth.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    With uncommon grace, each of Pankey's precise lyrics advances our shared ontological questions and expresses our deepest contradictions. In a world of mystery, should we focus on finding meaning or creating it? How can the known-and the unknown- be captured in language?\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAugury\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful and magical collection from a poet of stirring intelligence, \"a book of stones unstitched from the wolf's belly.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAugury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \"A darkly luminous book by a poet at the height of his considerable poetic power.\" -Kathy Fagan, author of \u003ci\u003eMoving \u0026amp; St. Rage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \"This is a book I will keep close at hand, alongside the best work of Montale, Dickinson, Celan, and Stevens. This is a book one will turn to again and again.\" -Rebecca Dunham, author of \u003ci\u003eCold Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \"Each ethereal image he weaves into his work is delicately curated, whittled down through his attention to sound. . . . Pankey's poems destabilize as they straddle time and place, and he looks askance at the narrow way in which language is often viewed.\" -\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46537614360817,"sku":"9781571319401","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781571319401_p0.jpg?v=1766595047","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781571319401","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}