Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans: (W.W. Norton & Company, June, 2005) Thomas Lynch's newest release, available June 2005. A writer's returning to the old country reveals the binding ties of family, faith, language and home-place -- the precious and perilous nature of tribe and "people" and ethnicity. .
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade: (W.W. Norton & Company, July 1997, July 1998) A collection of twelve essays, The Undertaking was a winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award.
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality : (W.W. Norton & Company, May 2001) In this collection of essays, Thomas Lynch, called a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats, reminds us not only of how we die but also of how we live.
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Still Life in Milford: Poems : (W.W. Norton & Company, August 1998, November 1999) A collection of poetry in which Thomas Lynch tenders poems on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographies.
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Grimalkin: (Cape Poetry: 1994) The poems in this volume are all concerned, one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity. Lynch looks for this equilibrium between equal and opposing forces, such as sex and death, and love and grief - all the things that make us mortal and memorable.
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Skating with Heather Grace: (Alfred A. Knopf: December 1986) Issued as part of the prestigious Knopf Poetry Series, this is the first published collection of the great undertaker poet, and is very scarce, especially in the hardcover issue. Like the poets Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams before him, Thomas Lynch works in the world of real things. Like Stevens, like Williams, Lynch does the kind of work that makes him look at death-week in, week out, year in, year out.
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