Synopses & Reviews
In his fourth collection of poems, Thomas Lynch attends to flora, fauna, and fellow pilgrims: dead poets and living masters, a former president and his factotums, a sin-eater and inseminator. Faux-bardic and mock-epic, deft at lament and lampoon, fete and feint, Lynch's poems are powerful medicines, tonics for the long haul and home-going. from "Walking Papers"
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from "Walking Papers You can think of it as punctuation and maybe take some comfort from that, friend a question mark or exclamation point no matter, we're all sentenced to an end the movers and the shakers, bon vivants all ne'er-do-wells and nincompoops, savants sage and sluggard, deft and daft alike everyone's given their walking papers"
Synopsis
from "Walking Papers"
You can think of it as punctuation
and maybe take some comfort from that, friend--
a question mark or exclamation point--
no matter, we're all sentenced to an end,
the movers and the shakers, bon vivants,
all ne'er-do-wells and nincompoops, savants,
sage and sluggard, deft and daft alike:
everyone's given their walking papers.
Synopsis
A decade's worth of poems by one of our most reliable witnesses, National Book Award finalist Thomas Lynch.
About the Author
Thomas Lynch's stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s, the Times (of London, New York, Ireland, and Los Angeles), and elsewhere. The Undertaking was a finalist for the National Book Award; he is also the author of Still Life in Milford, Booking Passage, Apparition & Late Fictions and Walking Papers. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan, and West Clare, Ireland.