Lynch, Thomas: Bone Rosary: New and Selected Poems

David R. Godine, Publisher; hardcover Publication Date: March 23, 2021 Publisher Marketing: 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, "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 friendsand 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 paymentsand 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 insig