Bodies in Motion and at Rest: Essays - Couverture rigide

Lynch, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393049272 ISBN 13 : 9780393049275

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2000

Synopsis

Thomas Lynch, called "a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats" (New York Times), reminds us not only of how we die but also of how we live. "The facts of life and death remain the same. We live and die, we love and grieve, we breed and disappear. And between these existential gravities, we search for meaning, save our memories, leave a record for those who will remember us." So writes Thomas Lynch, poet and funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, as he continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts." The essays assembled here explore the human condition at the intersection of millennia, beleaguered by choices and changes, encumbered by merger and acquisition, numbed by maths and technologies, in search of the meaning of life and time, our lives and times. Lynch tenders life and times--sextons, muckrakers, clergy, caskets, condoms, loved poems, a hated cat, the mall, Main Street. In an age that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech, or pop-psyche terms, these essays speak to the existentials: between being human and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts." "Lynch engages the reader with a mixture of poetic and funerary elements. . . . his voice is rich and generous."? Richard Bernstein, New York Times" What makes him such a fine essayist is that it's just the business of everyday life and death to him."? Los Angeles Times Book Review" Few readers will walk away from this volume less than stunned and grateful."? Jay Parini, author of Benjamin's Crossing" A luminous work of words."? Nicholas Delbanco, author of What Remains

Biographie de l'auteur

Thomas Lynch is The Undertaking was a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Michigan and Ireland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393049272
• ISBN 13: 9780393049275
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible