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the poems paint a complex portrait of navigating life at the margins
Eric Pankey is the author of fourteen collections of poems and a book of essays
buried underneath the crushing weight of cultural and personal history
No Mission
or a group effort”
Songbirds of the Nine Rivers Book cover type:Paperback the poems paint a complexFinalist for the 2024 California Book Award in Poetry. Part historical, part geographical, part philosophical lyric poems inspired by Vietnam's Mekong Delta and poems of the Tang and L dynasties. In his afterword to Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, Joseph Zaccardi recounts how, during his time as a Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War, he found refuge in a volume of ancient Chinese and Vietnamese poetry. His study, now lifelong, has borne fruit in this