Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality - Softcover

Lynch, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393321649 ISBN 13: 9780393321647

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Synopsis

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

About this title

Synopsis:

A Michigan poet, funeral director, and American Book Award-winning author of The Undertaking continues his quirky observations on the relations between the literary and mortuary arts, in a collection of illuminating essays and observations on life, death, and creative expression. Reprint.

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393321649
• ISBN 13: 9780393321647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282