With Canticle of the Night Path, Jennifer Atkinson sets in motion a deeply compelling sequence of praise songs. Whether their origins are remote in time or close to hand, the objects of her praise become intricately connected as each is illuminated in turn–by electric light, by candle-light, by lightning. She models a patient attention that gives way to sudden insights and the reader is transported by the clarity and music of her forms. —Susan Stewart, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and Mac Arthur Fellow
About the author
Jennifer Atkinson is the author of four collections of poetry—The Dogwood Tree, The Drowned City, Drift Ice, and now Canticle of the Night Path, which recently won Free Verse’s 2012 New Measure Poetry Prize. Individual poems have appeared in various journals including Field, Image, Witness, New American Writing, and Cincinnati Review. She teaches in the English Department and the MFA program at George Mason University in Virginia.
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