"A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape. Thoughtful, sincere, wise, and beautiful." -Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
At once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes, The Way Around models what it means to experience a true revolution of heart and home for the flourishing ofall.
From National Geographic’s 2014 Adventurers of the Year, a beautifully illustrated account of a year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
“A lush gem of a book, both heartbreaking and heart-making.”—AMY THIELEN
Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing is “a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively.” (Henri Cole)
“A very American book, and an important one for our time.” —CATE MARVIN
“Some of my favorite people on Earth are in this book, dear writers and grand spirits.” —ANNIE DILLARD
“Both carefully observed and daringly philosophical . . . The cosmos aches, as it did for Orpheus and for Gilgamesh, and as it did for Eve.” —MARK DOTY
“I will read more books in my life but I will not love another book more than this one.” —MARY-LOUISE PARKER
“Eric Pankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it.” —DAN BEACHY-QUICK
Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat “gloriously stakes new territory in queerness.”