Name: The Undertaking: Life Studies From the Dismal Trade
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Author: Thomas Lynch
ISBN: 9780393334876

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The Undertaking: Life Studies From the Dismal Trade

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Lynch

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN

0393334872

ISBN13

9780393334876

Synopsis "The Undertaking: Life Studies From the Dismal Trade "

Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople. So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas 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 ear tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve pieces his is the voice of both witness and functionary. Here, Lynch, poet to the dying, names the hurts and whispers the condolences and shapes the questions posed by this familiar mystery. So here is homage to parents who have died and to children who shouldn't have. Here are golfers tripping over grave markers, gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides. These are the lessons for life our mortality teaches us.

Thomas Lynch

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Thomas Lynch (Detroit, 1948), American poet and essayist, director for over forty years of a funeral home in Milford, Michigan, is the author of the poetry books Skating With Heather Grace (1987), Grimalkin and Other Poems (1994), Still Life in Milford (1998) and the essay book Bodies in Motion and at Rest (2000). Lynch's poems and essays have appeared in major publications such as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, and The London Review of Books, among others. He has received several awards both domestically and internationally, including those given by The National Book Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Arvon Foundation in England. The Undertaking is his most important book of essays, translated into seven languages, winner of the American Book Award and the Heartland Prize for nonfiction, and a finalist for the National Book Award.

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