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    Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems
    Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems
    Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems
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    Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems

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    Sonnets are familiar to us, but not relevant. What do they have to do with our fast-paced, tech-driven, ever-shrinking contemporary world? But what if the sonnet—invented 700 years ago—could come back like a cat with nine lives? A sonnet in the twenty-first century might serve as a sacramental form, calling us from our work-mad lives to quietness and reflection.

    In Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking, Jeanne Murray Walker invites the reader to join her on a journey told in 58 colloquial sonnets, beginning in the slangy streets of New York and ending in the holiness of silence and praise. Stops on the journey include reflections on death and grief, but also praise for a migrating butterfly, a knock on the door, the astonishing ocean. This book is designed to be used as a devotional and read slowly; to be both a book of poetry and a spiritual companion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781640602410
    Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems
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    Jeanne Murray Walker

    Jeanne Murray Walker was born in a village of 900 people in northern Minnesota. She was first published by The Atlantic Monthly at age 19. Today she’s the prize-winning author of nine books of poetry. Jeanne serves as a Mentor in the Seattle Pacific University low residency MFA Program and travels widely to give readings and workshops.

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      Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking - Jeanne Murray Walker

      PILGRIM,

      You Find the Path By Walking

      PILGRIM,

      You Find the Path By Walking

      JEANNE MURRAY WALKER

      POEMS

      2019 First Printing

      Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems

      Copyright © 2019 by Jeanne Murray Walker

      ISBN 978-1-64060-008-9

      The Paraclete Press name and logo (dove on cross) are trademarks of Paraclete Press, Inc.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Walker, Jeanne Murray, author.

      Title: Pilgrim, you find the path by walking : poems / Jeanne Murray Walker.

      Description: Brewster, MA : Paraclete Press, Inc., 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019002144 | ISBN 9781640600089 (tradepaper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Pilgrims and pilgrimages—Poetry. | Sonnets, American. | Devotional poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3573.A425336 A6 2019 | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002144

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published by Paraclete Press

      Brewster, Massachusetts

      www.paracletepress.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      FOR

      Sophia, Adalyn, Lachlan, and Margaret,

      who teach me new ways to find the path forward

      The moon and sun are travelers through eternity.

      Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life

      on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse,

      each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

      —MATSUO BASHŌ

      Paraclete Poetry Series Editor

      Mark S. Burrows

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE: My Pilgrimage with the Sonnet

      INTRODUCTION: A Map of the Pilgrimage

      The Sonnets

      I

      IN THE BEGINNING

      SOPHIE LEARNS TO PRINT SOPHIA

      THE VIOLINIST

      MENDELSSOHN FINDS THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION

      THE MUSIC BEFORE THE MUSIC

      REMBRANDT: LATE SELF PORTRAIT

      PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM: LEARNING TO SEE

      SONG OF THE STREET

      ROCK

      THE PATH FORWARD

      II

      FOREBODING

      BREAKING THE BLUE BOWL

      THE KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR DISGUISED AS A SONNET

      BAKER

      SO YOU’RE LOSING YOUR MEMORY?

      SELF-EXAMINATION

      TO THE CARDINAL WATCHING ME SHOWER

      FINCH

      THE CREATION

      AFTER THE BUTTERFLY COMPLETES THE FIRST LEG OF HER THOUSAND-MILE MIGRATION

      POINSETTIA

      III

      WHILE HIKING WITHOUT PEN AND PAPER, I MAKE MENTAL NOTES

      DEATH BE NOT PROUD

      AT 10,000 FEET

      REUNION

      AFTER THE DEATHBED: 14 LINES SEPARATED AND WANDERING

      BURYING MY MOTHER

      GRIEF

      HER CRY

      PRAYING FOR THE DEAD

      COMPLAINT: ONCE MORE ABOUT DEATH

      THE VOICE

      ROAD TO EMMAUS

      WORKING TO SAVE YOURSELF

      THE LECTURE

      RUMMAGING THROUGH LANGUAGE TO FIND A SONNET

      THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

      WHAT WAS I THINKING?

      REVERSAL

      NOTES TO YOURSELF

      IV

      AT THE OCEAN

      THE PROBLEM WITH SILENCE

      PHILADELPHIA: WALKING TO WORK ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING

      SILENCE

      RUAH

      THE SOUL LONGS FOR HOME

      STUDY: HOW THE LEAF FALLS

      EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK YOU SEE LILACS

      ATTEMPT

      BORDER CROSSING

      THE HAUNTING

      NIGHTMARE

      THE COBBLER

      SHOES

      FAREWELL

      Acknowledgments

      PREFACE

      My Pilgrimage With The Sonnet

      Over the last decade I have felt troubled by the flatness of much contemporary American poetry, my own included. When you get tired of your own voice, as one of my teachers used to say, go back to the old masters. Their strategies

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