The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
Foreword by Alan Ball
“Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection from Lynch’s four previous collections of nonfiction, along with new essays shaped by the press of the author’s own mortality.
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The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
Foreword by Alan Ball
“Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection from Lynch’s four previous collections of nonfiction, along with new essays shaped by the press of the author’s own mortality.
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The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
“Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection from Lynch’s four previous collections of nonfiction, along with new essays shaped by the press of the author’s own mortality.
Thomas Lynch’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times, and elsewhere. His first collection of essays, The Undertaking, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan.