THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY 

Michael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisher

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The Resurrection of the Body

Smith/Doorstop Books, 2007
Sheep Meadow Press (USA)

The poems in this col­lec­tion explore the human body in its sensual and erotic diversity, within which the divine Body some­times moves, lib­er­ated and lib­er­ating. ‘Don Juan’ finds a place here, and so do ‘Jacob and the Angel’.

‘Michael Schmidt proves once again that he is first and fore­most a poet of stature and breadth. The Resurrection of the Body is a magis­terial book, whose reader is riveted to the page by urgent nar­rative while (like the pilgrim entering the Golden Dome whose cre­ation and destruc­tion form one such nar­rative) mar­vel­ling at and savouring the lin­guistic density, per­fec­tion of form and figure, of the poetry.’
– Marilyn Hacker