Canticle of the Night Path

Jennifer Atkinson Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize Judge: Susan Stewart Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-356-5 (paperback, $12); 978-1-60235-357-2 (PDF, $9.99). © 2013 by Parlor Press. 76 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book The poems in Jennifer Atkinson’s Canticle of the Night Path, collected in alphabetical order from “Canticle of A” to “Canticle of Zed,” are little songs of five—five lines, five sentences, five couplets, or five paragraphs—canticles to, for, with, and of all sorts of things.  There are Canticles to Chipped Plates, to Dust, with Eyelashes, with Macaroons, of Rhymes, Rushes, Slippage, Stone, Shrapnel and Manna. Woven throughout the book, along with a series of Parables as if excerpted from her teachings, is the legendary figure of Mary Magdalene, as painted by Giotto and re-imagined as a teacher of embodied spiritual and intellectual practi