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Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems
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ISBN10: 1848613377
ISBN13: 9781848613379
Publisher: Summertime Pub
Published: Apr 14 2014
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781848613379
Publisher: Summertime Pub
Published: Apr 14 2014
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
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