num_pages: 72
description: Eros presides over the operatic spectacle of these poems, and Melancholia over their ravenous clarity. The tragic and comic dispute a border, a margin that divides death from resurrection, separation from reunion, renunciation from celebration, and the spirit from the body. The poems themselves are pilgrimages back and forth between Eden and this green world. This new collection more than confirms what David Baker in The Kenyon Review said in response to Pankey's last "He is outstanding among an emerging generation of talented and accomplished poets."From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Late Romances: Poems
titlecomplete: The Late Romances: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Knopf