Canticle of the Night Path

Winner of Free Verse's 2012 New Measure Poetry Prize. O. . . 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 turnNby electric light, by candlelight, 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."NSusan Stewart.