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Walking Papers: Poems
by
Thomas Lynch
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.
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Hardcover, 88 pages
Published
November 1st 2010
by W. W. Norton & Company
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Poetry books always take me longer to read than their length would suggest.
I like to savor the poems, reading them slowly and often more than once. This collection of poetry is a combination of everyday experiences, life events, and history.
I liked the way they were put together and the humour evident in many. These poems relate life with friends, not necessarily much in the way of material possessions, and an acknowledgement of human experience.
A lovely book
I like to savor the poems, reading them slowly and often more than once. This collection of poetry is a combination of everyday experiences, life events, and history.
I liked the way they were put together and the humour evident in many. These poems relate life with friends, not necessarily much in the way of material possessions, and an acknowledgement of human experience.
A lovely book
This is an excellent collection of poems. Lynch has a voice that is serious, mordant, at times quite light and humorous, but always approachable. He is calming, and seems aimed as dispensing us of our illusions. I loved every line.
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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.
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