Foreword by Alan Ball“Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking.
If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one's breast-pocket amongst one's effects.
The poems in Grimalkin - Thomas Lynch's first publication in Britain are all concerned, in one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity.
Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small... Læs mere
An original approach for dealing with High Speed Rail transportation development in the US, this book serves as a blueprint for such development
the effort to give voice to unspeakable things: great love, great heartbreak, great wonder, great pain;
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... Læs mere