Canticle of the Night Path. Jennifer Atkinson

Canticle of the Night Path

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Canticle of the Night Path

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize

Jennifer Atkinson

Parlor Press

Anderson, South Carolina

www.parlorpress.com

Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Atkinson, Jennifer, 1955-

Canticle of the night path / Jennifer Atkinson.

pages cm. -- (Free Verse Editions)

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize.

ISBN 978-1-60235-356-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN (invalid) 978-1-60235-357-2 (Adobe ebook) -- ISBN (invalid) 978-1-60235-358-9 (ePubf)

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PS3551.T57C36 2013

811’.54--dc23

2012037950

Cover design by David Blakesley.

Cover art: “Botanical 71” © Sheep Jones. Used by permission.

Printed on acid-free paper.

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For all my teachers

. . . I said to him, ‘Teacher, now does one who sees the vision

see it <through> the soul <or> through the spirit?’

The Teacher answered and said, ‘One does not see through the soul

nor through the spirit, but the mind which [is] between the two—

that is [what] sees the vision and it is [. . .]

—The Gospel of Mary [Magdalene]

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands . . .

—Hart Crane

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