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Prayers of My Body

Written in an intensely focused, meditative tone of pain, love, and hope, which is sustained over eleven poems, the cycle “Prayers of My Body” is an powerful achievement worthy to stand among the great works of postwar European poetry. – Rawley Grau and Christina E. Kramer

Šopov's comments to the Prayers of my body. Excerpt of a manuscript

Birth of the Word

Prayer for an Ordinary Word Not Yet Found
Second prayer of my body
Third Prayer of My Body
Fourth Prayer of My Body
Fifth Prayer od My Body
Sixth Prayer of My Body
Seventh Prayer of My Body
Eighth Prayer of My Body, or, Who Will Conceive of That Love?
Ninth Prayer of My Body
Tenth Prayer of My Body
Last Prayer of My Body

The cycle “Prayers of My Body” inspired the ballet of the same name, premiered on December 23, 2025, one hundred years after the birth of Aco Šopov.

More information about the ballet (in Macedonian)

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