Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems Michael Smith

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." Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Prayers for the Dead and Other Poems (Michael Smith)