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Author: Thomas Lynch
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393041123

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

A chronicle of small-town life and death told through the eyes of a poet who is also an undertaker. Get The Undertaking literature books for free.
/strong>"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 myster Check The Undertaking our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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/strong>"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 Here, Lynch, poet to the dying, names the hurts and whispers the condolences and shapes the questions posed by this familiar myster

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