Proving that he is not a ‘posthumous poet’, as (self) described in PNR, Michael Schmidt’s pamphlet, Here They Are has ben published by SmithDoorstop. This remarkable new collection is his shortest and most brilliantly complete and compelling. It bears out Rachel Mann’s comment in a review about the ‘precise and disconcerting magic’ of his language. As the poet writes:
Poetry sometimes goes its own way, abandoning storytelling and lyric and following instead ‘the way of language’, discovering for a change what it has to say — more interesting than what the ‘I’ intended.
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