Still Life In Milford

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The new collection from the author of the cult classic THE UNDERTAKING IN STILL LIFE IN MILFORD, Lynch casts the cold eye we are told to on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geog-raphies. Examining the dynamics of faith, rememberance, and intimate conduct, these poems are informed by end times, tribulations and visions that make up the ordinary enterprise of daily life. Colloquy and narrative, Soliloquy and tribute- STILL LIFE IN MILFORD engages the poet's voice - as elegist, eulogist, orbiturist, straight man and passer-by - to achieve a difficult and inimitable harmony.

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A poet of great gifts, a humorous visionary -- Laura Cumming * Guardian *
Like his admired Theodore Roethke, Lynch hails from Michigan - and like Roethke he can fashion long, singing lines unafraid of the old elemental resonances of stars, roses, angels, the Latin mysteries of his Catholic childhood... A mavellous, life-giving collection -- Adam Thorpe * Observer *
A fine and accomplished poet -- Harry Ritchie * Financial Times *
An artist of great gifts, musically elevating and directing the speaking voice towards a startling power, moving through the accumulation of detail to give a visionary account of the ordinary life, doing justice to its terror and comedy. If it remains the poet's task to say things on behalf of everybody, Lynch shows how it should be done -- Sean O'Brien
Tragic, cryptic, compassionate and amusing, Lynch's poetry moves in a superb rhythm through the commonplace and the extraordinary -- Jessamy Galkin * GQ *

Author Bio

Thomas Lynch is the author of two collections of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest, The Undertaking, which was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Award, and a memoir, 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.