His arresting ninth collection of poems, Eric Pankeys Trace locates itself at a threshold between faith and doubtbetween the visible and the invisible, the say-able and the ineffable, the physical and the metaphysical. Also a map of the poets journey into a deep depression, these poems confront one mans struggle to overcome depressions smothering weight and presence. And with remarkable clarity and complexity, Trace charts the poets attempt to be inspired, to breathe again, to give breath and life to words. Ever solemn, ever existential, Pankeys poems find us at our most vulnerable, the moment when we as humansbelievers and nonbelievers alikemust ultimately pause to question the uncertain fate of our souls.