| Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems Contributor(s): Smith, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848613377 ISBN-13: 9781848613379 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.27 lbs) 88 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |