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Steven Nightingale presents his new book of sonnets The Golden Pilgrimage.  For poet Steven Nightingale, the sonnet is not just a poetic form, it is the form of our dreams: the dream that poetry can take the mind home to original beauties; that the life of each of us is bound to a joy at the midmost of the world; that language can tease a bright reality from the catastrophes of the day; that we may learn to change ourselves, in hopes of becoming hidden sidekicks of light, useful, practical, bemused. Steven Nightingale is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Lost Coast and Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon, and several books of poetry including The Light in them is Permanent, Planetary Tambourine, Cartwheels and Cinnamon Theologies.    “There is a natural ecstatic in Steven Nightingale, whom one might situate on a scale somewhere between Emerson and Rumi. And there is also a craftsman--with a jeweler's or a watchmaker's meticulousness---who wants to make the sonnet mimic his wonder at the architecture of things. They are both very present in this his third sonnet sequence and they make a labor of praise and praise out of labor.” --Robert Hass, former US Poet Laureate