Skating with Heather Grace - Softcover

Lynch, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887485413 ISBN 13: 9780887485411

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A Classic Contemporary reissuing of Skating with Heather Grace by Thomas Lynch.

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About the Author

THOMAS LYNCH's poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, Harper's, and The Times (of London, New York, Ireland, and Los Angeles), and elsewhere. His book, The Undertaking, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The PBS Frontline film based on this work won the 2008 Emmy Award for Arts & Culture Documentary. His first collection of stories, Apparition & Late Fictions, has recently been published by W. W. Norton. He lives in Milford, Michigan, and in Moveen West, County Clare, Ireland.

From Publishers Weekly

This powerful, provocative collection of 42 poems introduces a poet who speaks with authority and eloquence. Often his subjects are commonplacehis wife, dog and children, his workand the poems are set at home in Michigan and abroad, in Ireland and Italy. (Several of the pieces are about Argyle, a mythic Irish character.) Like his father, Lynch is an undertaker, and the poems that address death here are sagacious and overcome the risk of morbidity by embracing life while facing death. Other standouts are his tender meditation on his daughter, "Skating with Heather Grace," and the heartfelt, gritty perceptions of "Tatyana." Most of the pieces are composed in pentameters, the majority written in a capricious blank verse. Although at times the meter suffers from excessive use of run-over lines, elsewhere there is grace and control, indeed virtuosity. Lynch is a poet with something to say and something worth listening to.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0887485413
• ISBN 13: 9780887485411
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64