{"product_id":"the-future-perfect-a-fugue-9781946482716","title":"The Future Perfect: A Fugue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe Future Perfect: A Fugue\u003c\/em\u003e, Eric Pankey tells us 'what matters is the miscellany, ' our 'unkempt days loosely stitched to the next....' Still, he'll confess, 'one could lose sleep making sense of the grab bag of all \u003cem\u003ethe this \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e the that\u003c\/em\u003e.' How can we not 'project into the future, ' not 'see the past as portent?' he writes. 'How does one avoid thinking about the \u003cem\u003evoid\u003c\/em\u003e?' One disquieting question follows upon another in this chapbook's single polyphonic poem. \u003cstrong\u003eIn lieu of answers, Pankey offers us the pleasure of his ever-gorgeous music. From such a virtuoso, 'these notes, these intervals' are all we could ask for.\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e-Allison Funk\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The scope of the collection is epic-dance is created, the Minotaur faces the maze, stone tools disappear, Thomas the Doubter touches the wound; and ultimately the future seems one of vanishing, both for the earth and for the individual: 'the murmur of ink drying.' Everything is transitory; yet we watch the narrator visualize the here and now in bushes swamped in purple blossoms, a house on fire, an opaque sky, moons, pulses of rain, light in its many forms. Images appear and disappear, repeat and interweave as in a musical fugue, the impersonal voice questioning the simultaneity of what is happening, the unkempt past, memory itself. \u003cstrong\u003eWhat is most moving for me is watching what the narrator calls the apparition of a body practicing presence. It is that hesitancy, that acknowledged effort-these poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e-Martha Ronk\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12395848\"\u003eEric Pankey\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tupelo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946482716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1946482714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tupelo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44570546667757,"sku":"9781946482716","price":19.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_26713c71-5bbb-4a56-b6e1-f0ac43187982.jpg?v=1701936110","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-future-perfect-a-fugue-9781946482716","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}