{"product_id":"prayers-for-the-dead-and-michael-smith-9781848613379","title":"Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems","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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848613377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848613379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d","brand":"Michael Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001794904319,"sku":"9781848613379","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_acfa9d06-bcf9-4fd5-b56e-fbd2fb21ef57.jpg?v=1751602163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prayers-for-the-dead-and-michael-smith-9781848613379","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}