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Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Thomas Lynch
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Description for Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Paperback. The American poet, Thomas Lynch, is also a funeral director in a small Michigan town, and this is his testimony. It comprises 12 essays - each a lesson taught to the living by the dead. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ears tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve essays is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between 'the living and the living who have dies' with the same outrage and amazement, straining for the same glimpse we all get of what mortality ... Read more
Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ears tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve essays is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between 'the living and the living who have dies' with the same outrage and amazement, straining for the same glimpse we all get of what mortality ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099767312
SKU
V9780099767312
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Ref
99-2
About Thomas Lynch
'Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.' So opens the singular testimony of the American poet, Thomas Lynch. Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the ... Read more
Reviews for Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
These craggy "life studies," forged during his years in the "dismal trade," are always forceful, authentic and full of a kind of ethical and esthetic clarity.
Richard Bernstein
New York Times
Richard Bernstein
New York Times