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Bone rosary : new & selected poems
Lynch, Thomas, 1948-2022
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A selection of the very best from one of America's most thought-provoking writers: poems on life, faith, doubt, and death that read like memoir, essay, and story. America's much celebrated poet-undertaker Thomas Lynch is renowned for his thought-provoking poems on life, faith, doubt and death. This new retrospective shows the passage of his work over time, `a pilgrimage of sorts through growing old and facing death - subjects that caregivers know all too well. Lynch's upfront, unvarnished style is likely to resolate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions' (Mary Plummer, New York Times). Lynch - like Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams - is a poet who writes about real things with language rooted in the everyday yet masterfully infused with power. He spent his working life as an undertaker in Midwest America, becoming in his off-hours a writer of exceptional insight with much to say about life's questions and mysteries - big and small. Drawing on his own daily routine, he transforms the mundane task of preparing the dead into life-affirming accounts of how we live our lives. His lyrical, elegiac poems describe the dead citizens of of his home town, his own family relationships, and scenes and myths from his Irish Catholic upbringing.
Main title:
Bone rosary : new & selected poems / Thomas Lynch.
Author:
Lynch, Thomas, 1948-, author
Imprint:
Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2022.
Collation:
245 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Cloud of Witnesses: An Introduction 19-- from SKATING WITH HEATHER GRACEMichael's Reply to the White Man 33A Death 35Venice 36The Blood We Paid For 37A Family of Fishermen 39Tatyana 40Like My Father Waking Early 41Marriage 43Lessons from Berkeley 44O Canada 45The Widow 46A Dream of Death in the First Person 47Skating with Heather Grace 48Learning Gravity 50A Clearing in the Woods 57A Note on the Rapture to His True Love 58Pornography 59The Liturgist 60I Felt Myself Turning 61A Good Death Even When It Kills You 62To Her Sisters on the Nature of the Universe 63Where It Came From 64Noon on Saturday 65Wormwood 67Pruning 68The Grandmothers 69For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday 70-- from GRIMALKIN & OTHER POEMSAttende Domine 75Aisling 76At the Opening of Oak Grove Cemetery Bridge 78Green Bananas 81Adoro Te Devote 82Grimalkin 83Casablanca 85In Paradisum 86Inviolata 87Liberty 88No Prisoners 89O Gloriosa Virginum 92Rhododendrons 93That Scream If You Ever Hear It 94The Nines 96The Lives of Women 97Tommy 98West Highland 99-- from STILL LIFE IN MILFORDArt History, Chicago 103Kisses 105Bishop's Island 106Rentals Ledger 107An Evening Walk to the Sea by Friesians 108Heavenward 110Couplets 111The Moveen Notebook 112The Old Operating Theatre, London, All Souls, Night 124She Instructs the Brethren on the Laws of Love 125Still Life in Milford-Oil on Canvas by Lester Johnson 126-- from WALKING PAPERSEuclid 131Montbretia 133Fr. Andrews 135To Be Among These Elegant Voices 136Corpses Do Not Fret Their Coffin Boards 139Oh Say Grim Death 140The Life of Fiction 142After Your Going 143Thirteen for Sean at Thirty 144Dear Mr. President 145Local Heroes 147Dear Mr. Vice President 149Himself 152Dear Madam Secretary 153On a Bar of Chinese Soap 155Dear Messrs. Attorneys General 156Walking Papers 158Calling 162Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets 165-- from THE SIN-EATER: A BREVIARYThe Sin-Eater 168Argyle in Agony 169Argyle's Vapors 170Argyle's Balance 171Argyle's Ejaculations 172Argyle's Retreat 173Argyle's Dream of the Church Dove 174Argyle in Carrigaholt 175Argyle's Return to the Holy Island 176Argyle's Stone 177Argyle at Loop Head 178Argyle's Eucharist 179A Corporal Work of Mercy 180Argyle Considers the Elements 181Argyle Among the Moveen Lads 182His Ambulations 183His Repasts 184He Considers Not the Lilies but Their Excellencies 185He Weeps Among the Clare Antiquities 186Argyle at the Ennis Friary 187He Posits Certain Mysteries 188His Purgations 189Argyle on Knocknagaroon 190Recompense His Paraclete 191-- CLOUD OF WITNESSES: NEW POEMSA Laving Song 194Libra 195Accordion 196You Who Never Came In 198Nativity 199Yossef 200Some Octaves on Holy Orders 201When She Knew 204Recompense 205How Howard Armstrong Learned the Verities 206The Desert Years 207At Moyarta 208Twelve Days of Christmas 209What Shall We Say? 210Receipt 213St. Kevin and the Temptress 214Personal 215Her Mother's Irises 216San Cassiano 217Par Rum Pum Pum Pum 218Waterfowl at Summer's End 220Moveen Solstice 221Flotilla 222Genesis 3 223Franchise 2016 224Corrine Among the Fronds of Basil 226Gratis 227Double Sonnet for the Florist's Son 228Interment 229Old Dogs 230Theodicy: A Lament 231The Prince Conti 233Another Miracle 234In the Gents Loo of the Stella Maris 235To His Grandchildren as Dark Draws Hither 236Priestess 238Digitas Paternae Dextrae 239Morning Among Piebalds 240Buskers 241Meadowhawk 242The Sick of the Palsy Healed and His Sins Forgiven 243Benediction 244Little Elegy 245
ISBN:
9781780376189 (pbk)9781780376196 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
811.6
LC class:
PS3562.Y437
Language:
English
BRN:
466343