Dismantling the Angel

ERIC PANKEY is the author of nine previous collections of poetry, including most recently THE PEAR AS ONE EXAMPLE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1984-2008 and TRACE. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Brown Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he teaches in the MFA and BFA programs in Creative Writing.