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No Mission
and a touch of irreverence
Eric Pankey is the author of fourteen collections of poems and a book of essays
Hardenberg's translations have been published in Asymptote
or a group effort”
Songbirds of the Nine Rivers Book cover type:Paperback No MissionFinalist 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