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outsidePrague.  \nAcknowledgements  \nThis book made possible through the Richard Walser and BerniceKelly Harris Fund of the Hanes Chairtable Lead Trust.  \nSome of these poems have appeared,sometimes in slightlydifferent form,in the following publications:  \n# Commonwealth TimesDestiny\n\nRichmond Arts  \nConfederation CourierSt.Andrews ReviewCairnRed Handbook  \nISBN:1-879934-87-6  \nC John Williamson 2005  \nprinted by:Meritage AssociatesSouthern Pines,North Carolina  \nfor:St.Andrews PressLaurinburg,North Carolina  \nPREFACE  \nNight was written in Richmond,Virginia and Laurinburg,North Carolina in 1979 and 1980.Using a variety of mediaimages,I had illustrated my prior two self-published collec-tions—Modern Love and Youth—but the somber mood ofNight led me to plan a series of black and white photographsof people and places to illustrate the book.I began the photog-raphy,but never finished it,and so subsequently,Night  \nremained unpublished—with the exception of the pieces thatwere published in magazines.The concept of the book grewout of a Ouija board session between Ron Bayes and myself inthe summer of 1980.The dedication of Night is to a person wespoke to at length that evening,someone who had died duringthe plague years in what is now Czechoslovakia.His was aninsistent spirit,and the fact that his name and the memory ofhis family will now be memorialized—for isn't one aim ofart the creation of memorials?—is cause for joy.  \nJohn WilliamsonOctober 31,2005Virginia Beach,Virginia  \n# TABLE OF CONTENTS\n\nONA SNOWY EVENING7MIDNIGHT8DISTANCE9DIVORCE10THE NEW VIRGINS11THE BODY IS A TEMPLE12NEW MEXICO13JUNE TWENTY-FOURTH14ENELI YDEH15CAPRI16SHE TELLS HIM17THE NEW WOMAN18FEAR19THE NEWADONIS20BIRTH21BY THE WALL22MY HEART IS LIKE BERLIN23FOR ANITA BERBER24MORGAN25PRESENTIMENTS26  \nINVASION  \n27  \nOUSTIDE CRACOW  \n28  \nBEFORE THE WAR  \n29  \n30  \nNEAR ELIOT’S TOMB  \nNIGHT  \n31  \n32  \nESTHER  \nI dream of a grave,deep and narrow,where we could clasp 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