(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
""Every Year I Bury a Couple Hundred of My Townspeople."" "So opens the singular testimony of the poet Thomas Lynch. Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to 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." "Here...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small- town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each exploring identity and humanity with Lynch's signature blend of memoir,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request