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Shearsman Books
Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems
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9781848613379
ISBN13:
9781848613379
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Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems
$18.00
This is Michael Smith's first collection since his Collected Poems of 2009, and is an elegiac volume. As the author says: "Let me try to define prayer as I am using it here. It is a voice in the head, ours and not ours. It speaks in words we scarcely understand. Unstoppable, unless distracted by our quotidian pursuits. Beckett said it thus: 'All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody is prayer.' Enigmatic, but what else would one expect from Beckett? Essentially, I perceive prayer as a form of homage or 'recognition'-the other word used by Beckett."
| Author: Michael Smith |
| Publisher: Shearsman Books |
| Publication Date: Apr 14, 2014 |
| Number of Pages: 88 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1848613377 |
| ISBN-13: 9781848613379 |
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