Undertaking
Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780393334876
- ISBN-100393334872
- Library of Congress Control Number97040900
- OCLC Control Number424506701
- Better World Books9780393334876
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29011030M
Classifications
- LCCBD444.L96 2009
- LCCBD444 .L96 2009
Description
"Every Year I Bury a Couple Hundred of My Townspeople." So opens the singular testimony of the poet Thomas Lynch. Like all poets, inspired by death, 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 ears tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. Here is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between "the living and the living who have died" with outrage and amazement, awe and calm, straining for the brief glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species.
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- Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
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