Advance Praise for Crow-Work "Eric Pankey's sensibility is an unerringly generous one: he is always willing to step first onto unsteady ground, to test it for those who might follow. The poems of Crow-Work , like good gleaners, seek out possibility and sustenance. They are skilled, deft, and dazzlingly alert. Just when I think they have brought me as close as possible to the dark and unknowable things that make awe possible, they bring me closer. The journey is unnerving, intimate, and thrilling." -- Mary Szybist "The delicacy and accuracy we have come to expect from Eric Pankey are here on display and as deftly deployed as ever. Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem." -- C.

Dale Young Select Praise for Eric Pankey and Previous Works: "Pankey's poems, whether lyric or prose, are touching, sincere, and sublime and work well as a whole." -- Library Journal "Eric Pankey is a poet of precise observation and startling particularities." -- Jane Hirshfield "In language that is always elegant, complex, and rigorously truthful, Eric Pankey transfixes us with glimpses of what we can never fully know." -- Chase Twichell.