Skating with Heather Grace
Published:
(Alfred A. Knopf: December 1986)
Purchase:
Indiebound and Powells and Barnes & Noble and Amazon
This book 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.  Sking with Heather Grace ssued as part of the prestigious Knopf Poetry Series.
Reviews
Reviewer: A reader Excellent work of readable honest poetry, June 16, 1997
Thomas Lynch is one of the great poets of our time. "Skating with Heather Grace" made me laugh, cry, think about life... and death... and the time in between. Even...
Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, English Dept., Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Library Journal
First book, Lynch speaks directly and boldly, invoking ritual by bringing the reader close to its performance: "Soon as I am able/ I intend to turn/ to gold myself.'' A...