Michael Schmidt

The cover of The Resurrection of the Body, with a detail from Sir Stanley Spencer's 'Cookham Resurrection'

  

  About this book John Ashbery wrote: 'Vibrant, radiant, Michael Schmidt’s poetry issteeped in modernist tradition (Yeats and Eliot) and questingly new.The result is a passionate discourse that is at once earthy andnuminous, from which “flows that unusual grace which is rooted inmuscle, / Which comes from the marrow and lymph, which is divine . . .”'