The Night Path

By Laurie Kutchins

Book Overview

In poems that span the time from her son's fetal stages through the first year of life, Laurie Kutchin's, The Night Path, focuses on the genesis of life. These poems express the connection between the inner and outer worlds showing the reality that is around us and the transcendence that is possible with this awareness. Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 1997.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880238497
• ISBN13: 9781880238493
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: BOA Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Strange, mystical, beautiful.

Kutchins explores the unknown region of understanding between a woman and the tissue forming itself inside her womb. As cell's divide and grow more complex, so does the poet's relationship with what is soon to become her son. The poems of growth, and ultimately separation, begin to illuminate her relationship with her own parents, the earth as living organism, the universe. A beautiful and meditative book about the natural cycle of life and death inherent even in the ultimate creative act of birth.