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Название: Augury

Автор: Eric Pankey

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Зарубежные стихи

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isbn: 9781571319401

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      Also by Eric Pankey

       For the New Year

       Heartwood

       Apocrypha

       The Late Romances

       Cenotaph

       Oracle Figures

       Reliquaries

       The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems

       Trace

       Dismantling the Angel

       Crow-Work

      © 2017, Text by Eric Pankey

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      Published 2017 by Milkweed Editions

      Printed in the United States of America

      Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

      Cover image by Johann Zahn, from Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (1685)

      Author photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Pankey, Eric, 1959- author.

      Title: Augury: poems / Eric Pankey.

      Description: First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017007143 (print) | LCCN 2017014829 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319401 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571314796 (softcover: acid-free paper)

      Classification: LCC PS3566.A575 (ebook) | LCC PS3566.A575 A6 2017 (print) | DDC 811/.54--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007143

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      For my granddaughter, Karlyn Ryan Steinberg

      CONTENTS

        Title Page

        Copyright

        Dedication

      1  AUGURY

      2  SPECULATION ON SUFFERING

      3  ORACLE BONES

      4  SPECULATION ON A STAR-NURSERY

      5  EPIPHENOMENON

      6  SPECULATION ON THE HISTORY OF DRAWING

      7  ELEGY FOR CY TWOMBLY

      8  THE FIG

      9  LOST

      10  DROPPED STITCHES

      11  GHOST SHIP or UNION OF THE TORUS AND THE SPHERE

      12  AT SÉNANQUE ABBEY

      13  SPECULATION ON THE DARK AGES

      14  SYNOPSIS OF A BATTLE

      15  SPECULATION ON MELANCHOLIA

      16  PROOFS AND REFUTATIONS

      17  THE FRAGILE INSTANT THE NIGHT LIGHTS UP

      18  СКАЧАТЬ