{"product_id":"bone-rosary-new-and-selected-poems-hardcover","title":"Bone Rosary: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e said, \"likely to resonate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eI have steady work, a circle of friends\u003cbr\u003e and lunch on Thursdays with the Rotary.\u003cbr\u003e I have a wife, unspeakably beautiful, \u003cbr\u003e a daughter and three sons, a cat, a car, \u003cbr\u003e good credit, taxes, and mortgage payments\u003cbr\u003e and certain duties here. Notably, \u003cbr\u003e when folks get horizontal, breathless, still: \u003cbr\u003e life in Milford ends. They call. I send a car.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Lynch spent his career as an undertaker in Midwest America--and in his off-hours became a writer of exceptional insight. \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e calls him, \"A poet with something to say and something worth listening to.\" This collection presents 140 of his greatest poems drawn from his previous books, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSkating with Heather Grace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStill Life in Milford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrimalkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sin-Eater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalking Papers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. This is a collection for readers who love all life's questions and mysteries--big and small. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thomas Lynch's poems take us under the apparent world to where consciousness is alive and shimmering with joy and loss, blindness and epiphany.\"--Billy Collins\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 06, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768665735456,"sku":"9781567927016","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b5efed0564516d9900dbb2427df84156.webp?v=1780334869","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bone-rosary-new-and-selected-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}