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Thomas Lynch, called a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats, 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, beleagurered by choices and changes, encumbered by mergers and acquisitions, numbed by math and technologies, in search of the meaning of life and time, our lives and times.
CONDITION: Hard Cover with dust jacket, 275 pages, Used with light wear to book jacket, book crisp, near fine. stated first edition/ first printing. 2000.
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