Eric Pankey is the author of many collections of poetry. A new book, Not Yet Transfigured, is due out in the fall of 2021.

Other poems by Eric Pankey in Verse Daily:
March 26, 2020:   "Available Light" "The solace of amnesia must be that one..."
March 5, 2015:   "My Brother's Insomnia" "A boy ties (but will not remember how)..."
February 18, 2015:   "Lost" "In the distance, a river..."
December 28, 2005:   "Rain-Freighted" " Then the rain fell, as it does..."
November 28, 2005:   "As A Damper Quells A Struck String" " To name the melon flower is not to chart the hypothetical..."
April 10, 2005:  "The Narration of Rain ""Rain blows through the pines. Rain rattles water oak leaves. Rain on..."
June 2, 2003:  "Leave-Taking Above the Missouri" "The way out is up, over, through the thistle gate..."
May 4, 2003:  "The Reconstruction of the Fictive Space" "I open my eyes and a season passes..."

Books by Eric Pankey:

Other poems on the web by Eric Pankey:
Five poems
Seven poems
"Speculation on Suffering"
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
Two poems
"The Worksite"
"Post-Diluvian"
Five poems

Eric Pankey's Website.

Eric Pankey According to Wikipedia.

About Alias:

"This collection of prose poems celebrates not one Alias but many, both named and nameless. With the masterful clarity of image and grasp of the ephemeral we have come to expect from this poet, Eric Pankey sets to light the fluidity of the human condition. These pages slip between the material reality of daily life and the immateriality of eternity, from the everyday station wagon loaded with groceries to the biblical rapture that ungrounds gravity. If the difference between this world and the next is slight, barely noticeable, then these poems exist in that liminal space. One has the sense that Pankey sees beyond the visible, or sees both the visible and the invisible at once. The great gift of his work is that it allows us, as readers, to also see."
—Cynthia Marie Hoffman

"As 'winter rehearses its single line of dialogue' and 'the weather goes about its unmaking,' Eric Pankey delves into memory and imagination in Alias. The prose poem is the ideal vehicle for these excursions, allowing Pankey's mastery of poetry's architectures to radiate both splendor and spareness. This is a poet who sees and re-sees, ever at home in poetry's many possibilities. In Alias, Pankey solves the problem of how to write poetry when 'each thought is ahead of itself and too late.' The solution: knowing that, 'astray, one continues.'"
—Brian Henry

"Eric Pankey's new collection, Alias, shines as a fractal of declaratives. Combining the communion of ekphrasis with the fragmentary nature of memory, these prose poems generate a singular imagery. As one speaker offers, 'Sometimes an image arises out of nowhere and its source (an old newsreel? a dream?) escapes us: a group of explorers look down where the ice thins; the sled dogs, agitated, whimper.' Part field guide, part dream journal, Alias is wholly absorbing in its ability to crystallize distortion and render startling moments of discovery."
—Jon Pineda