Bodies in Motion and at Rest

Thomas Lynch

ISBN 10: 0224059041 / ISBN 13: 9780224059046

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2000

About this Item

2000. Paperback. By the award-winning author of "The Undertaking", this second collection of Lynch's essays examines the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts, a relationship on which he has a unique perspective, being both a poet and a funeral director. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 119. Weight in Grams: 319. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General". First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bodies in Motion and at Rest
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224059041
• ISBN 13: 9780224059046
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

'The facts of life and death remain the same. We l 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 in BODIES IN MOTION AND AT REST - the second collection of essays by the award-winning author of THE UNDERTAKING. As poet and funeral director, Lynch examines the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts - the connection between obsequies and prosodies; the effort to give voice to unspeakable things- great love, great heartbreak, great wonder, great pain; how icons, mataphors and ritualised speech are engaged in poems and in funerals. The essays assembled here explore a species at the intersection of millennia, beleaguered by choices and changes, encumbered by merger and acquisition, numbered by maths and technologies, in search of the meaning of Life and Time, our lives and times. In an age that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech or pop-psyche terms, these wise, exquisite essays explore the distance between birth and death, the condition of the human being and the state of ceasing to be.

About the Author

Thomas Lynch is the author of three collections of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest, The Undertaking, which was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Award, and Booking Passage. His poetry collections include Grimalkin & Other Poems and Still Life in Milford. He lives and works in Milford, Michigan, where he is the funeral director, and in West Clare where he keeps an ancestral cottage.