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.
| ISBN: | 9781857549423 |
| Publication date: | 28th June 2007 |
| Author: | Fiona Sampson |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 74 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
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.
Common Prayer features in the following genres: Poetry
Common Prayer is available in Paperback
Common Prayer was written by Fiona Sampson and published by Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press
Common Prayer has 74 pages