Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848613379)

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
ISBN-10: 1848613377
ISBN-13: 9781848613379
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2014
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d