{"product_id":"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.\"","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064084775152,"sku":"9781848613379","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848613379_p0.jpg?v=1763750352","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848613379","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}