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Common Prayer
Fiona Sampson
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Description for Common Prayer
Paperback. Meditations on the actuality of sickness and bereavement move outward through narratives of the broken body of Europe's violent twentieth century. This work offers a liturgy for a world in crisis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 110.
By turns sensual and incantatory, "Common Prayer" offers a liturgy for a world in crisis. Meditations on the actuality of sickness and bereavement move outward through narratives of the broken body of Europe's violent twentieth century. Challenging and exploratory, Fiona Sampson's poetry remakes the spiritual and physical metaphors by which we live.
By turns sensual and incantatory, "Common Prayer" offers a liturgy for a world in crisis. Meditations on the actuality of sickness and bereavement move outward through narratives of the broken body of Europe's violent twentieth century. Challenging and exploratory, Fiona Sampson's poetry remakes the spiritual and physical metaphors by which we live.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549423
SKU
V9781857549423
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About Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson has published six books and her work has been translated into Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Slovakian and Catalan. Her poetry collections include Picasso's Men (Phoenix Press, 1994), Folding the Real (Seren 2001), Hotel Casino: chapbook (Ark Publications, 2004)and The Distance Between Us: a verse-novel (Seren, 2005). After a brief solo career as a violinist, Sampson ... Read more
Reviews for Common Prayer
'In her finest collection yet, Common Prayer confirms Sampson's many gifts: sensual, sharply intelligent, searching; these poems live on their own terms, in their own appointed ground, ready to experiment, but not simply for experiment's sake, deeply musical, intellectually engaged and, most importantly, in love, not only with language, but also with the world that we seek day by day, ... Read more