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The Resurrection of the Body by Michael Schmidt

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These poems discover the human body in its sensual and erotic diversity, and within it sometimes the divine Body moves, liberated and liberating. The Resurrection of the Body is the flowering of a unique poetic intelligence.

“Schmidt is always a stringent poet, never shy of painful truth” – Helen Dunmore, The Observer

In his review of Schmidt’s Selected Poems 1972 –1997, Sebastian Barker said:

“There is enough love, attention to detail and creative energy in Schmidt for us to expect something astonishing from him in the future.”

That future has arrived.

Reviews of The Resurrection of the Body

	18 May 2007
Reviewer: John Ashbery
"Vibrant, radiant, Michael Schmidt's poetry is steeped in modernist tradition (Yeats and Eliot) and questingly new. The result is a passionate discourse that is at once earthy and numinous, from which "flows that unusual grace which is rooted in muscle, / Which comes from the marrow and lymph, which is divine . . ." John Ashbery

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