Bone rosary : new and selected poems / Thomas Lynch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Thomas, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Godine, 2021.

Summary:

"A selection of the very best from one of America's most thought-provoking writers: poems on life, faith, doubt, and death that read like memoir, essay, and story. As The New York Times said, has written, "likely to resonate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions." Thomas Lynch-like Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams-is a poet who writes about real things with language rooted in the everyday yet masterfully infused with power: I have steady work, a circle of friends and lunch on Thursdays with the Rotary. I have a wife, unspeakably beautiful, a daughter and three sons, a cat, a car, good credit, taxes, and mortgage payments and certain duties here. Notably, when folks get horizontal, breathless, still: life in Milford ends. They call. I send a car. Thomas Lynch spent his career as an undertaker in Midwest America-and in his off-hours became a writer of exceptional insight. Publishers Weekly calls him "A poet with something to say and something worth listening to." This collection presents 140 of Lynch's greatest poems drawn from his previous books, Skating With Heather Grace, Still Life in Milford, Grimalkin, The Sin-Eater, and Walking Papers. This is a collection for who loves all the questions and mysteries-big and small"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From Skating With Heather Grace

Michael's Reply to the White Man p. 33

A Death p. 35

Venice p. 36

The Blood We Paid For p. 37

A Family of Fishermen p. 39

Tatyana p. 40

Like My Father Waking Early p. 41

Marriage p. 43

Lessons from Berkeley p. 44

O Canada p. 45

The Widow p. 46

A Dream of Death in the First Person p. 47

Skating with Heather Grace p. 48

Learning Gravity p. 50

A Clearing in the Woods p. 57

A Note on the Rapture to His True Love p. 58

Pornography p. 59

The Liturgist p. 60

Felt Myself Turning p. 61

A Good Death Even When It Kills You p. 62

To Her Sisters on the Nature of the Universe p. 63

Where It Came From p. 64

Noon on Saturday p. 65

Wormwood p. 67

Pruning p. 68

The Grandmothers p. 69

For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday p. 70

From Grimalkin & other Poems

Attende Domine p. 75

Aisling p. 76

At the Opening of Oak Grove Cemetery Bridge p. 78

Green Bananas p. 81

Adoro Te Devote p. 82

Grimalkin p. 83

Casablanca p. 85

In Paradisum p. 86

Inviolata p. 87

Liberty p. 88

No Prisoners p. 89

O Gloriosa Virginum p. 92

Rhododendrons p. 93

That Scream If You Ever Hear It p. 94

The Nines p. 96

The Lives of Women p. 97

Tommy p. 98

West Highland p. 99

From Still Life In Milford

Art History, Chicago p. 103

Kisses p. 105

Bishop's Island p. 106

Rentals Ledger p. 107

An Evening Walk to the Sea by Friesians p. 108

Heavenward p. 110

The Moveen Notebook p. 112

The Old Operating Theatre, London, All Souls, Night p. 124

She Instructs the Brethren on the Laws of Love p. 125

Still Life in Milford- Oil on Canvas by Lester Johnson p. 126

From Walking Papers

Euclid p. 131

Montbretia p. 133

Fr. Andrews p. 135

To Be Among These Elegant Voices p. 136

Corpses Do Not Fret Their Coffin Boards p. 139

Oh Say Grim Death p. 140

The Life of Fiction p. 142

After Your Going p. 143

Thirteen for Sean at Thirty p. 144

Dear Mr. President p. 145

Local Heroes p. 147

Dear Mr. Vice President p. 149

Himself p. 152

Dear Madam Secretary p. 153

On a Bar of Chinese Soap p. 155

Dear Messrs. Attorneys General p. 156

Walking Papers p. 158

Calling p. 162

Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets p. 165

From The Sin-Eater: A Breviary

The Sin-Eater p. 168

Argyle in Agony p. 169

Argyle's Vapors p. 170

Argyle's Balance p. 171

Argyle's Ejaculations p. 172

Argyle's Retreat p. 173

Argyle's Dream of the Church Dove p. 174

Argyle in Carrigaholt p. 175

Argyle's Return to the Holy Island p. 176

Argyle's Stone p. 177

Argyle at Loop Head p. 178

Argyle's Eucharist p. 179

A Corporal Work of Mercy p. 180

Argyle Considers the Elements p. 181

Argyle Among the Moveen Lads p. 182

His Ambulations p. 183

His Repasts p. 184

He Considers Not the Lilies but Their Excellencies p. 185

He Weeps Among the Clare Antiquities p. 186

Argyle at the Ennis Friary p. 187

He Posits Certain Mysteries p. 188

His Purgations p. 189

Argyle on Knocknagaroon p. 190

Recompense His Paraclete p. 191

Cloud of Witnesses: New Poems

A Laving Song p. 194

Libra p. 195

Accordion p. 196

You Who Never Came In p. 198

Nativity p. 199

Yossef p. 200

Some Octaves on Holy Orders p. 201

When She Knew p. 204

Recompense p. 205

How Howard Armstrong Learned the Verities p. 206

The Desert Years p. 207

At Moyarta p. 208

Twelve Days of Christmas p. 209

What Shall We Say? p. 210

Receipt p. 213

St. Kevin and the Temptress p. 214

Personal p. 215

Her Mother's Irises p. 216

San Cassiano p. 217

Par Rum Pum Pum Pum p. 218

Waterfowl at Summer's End p. 220

Moveen Solstice p. 221

Flotilla p. 222

Genesis 3 p. 223

Franchise 2016 p. 224

Corrine Among the Fronds of Basil p. 226

Gratis p. 227

Double Sonnet for the Florist's Son p. 228

Interment p. 229

Old Dogs p. 230

Theodicy: A Lament p. 231

The Prince Conti p. 233

Another Miracle p. 234

In the Gents Loo of the Stella Maris p. 235

To His Grandchildren as Dark Draws Hither p. 236

Priestess p. 238

Digitas Paternae Dextrae p. 239

Morning Among Piebalds p. 240

Buskers p. 241

Meadowhawk p. 242

The Sick of the Palsy Healed and His Sins Forgiven p. 243

Benediction p. 244

Little Elegy p. 245.

Other Format:

Online version: Lynch, Thomas, 1948- Bone rosary

ISBN:

9781567927016

1567927017

OCLC:

1182514561