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The Resource The depositions : new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be, Thomas Lynch ; foreword by Alan Ball

The depositions : new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be, Thomas Lynch ; foreword by Alan Ball

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"A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small- town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each exploring identity and humanity with Lynch's signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions provides an essential selection from these masterful collections, as well as new essays in which the space between Lynch's hyphenated identities-as an Irish American, undertaker-poet-is narrowed by the deaths of poets, the funerals of friends, the loss of neighbors, intimate estrangements, and the slow demise of a beloved dog. Meanwhile, the press of the author's own mortality sharpens a curiosity about where we come from, where we go, and what it means. In The Depositions, Lynch continues to illuminate not only how we die, but also how we live"--
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eng
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
ix, 342 pages
Contents
  • The golfatorium
  • Tract
  • from
  • BODIES IN MOTION AND AT REST :
  • Introduction
  • Bodies in motion and at rest
  • Fish stories
  • Y2Kat
  • The way we are
  • Reno
  • Foreword by
  • from
  • BOOKING PASSAGE :
  • Introduction-
  • The ethnography of everyday life
  • The brother
  • The same but different
  • The sisters Godhelpus
  • from
  • THE GOOD FUNERAL :
  • How we come to be the ones we are
  • Alan Ball
  • The theory and practice of cremation
  • NEW ESSAYS :
  • Introit
  • Miracles
  • Moveable and steadfast feasts
  • Whence & whither
  • The done thing
  • from
  • THE UNDERTAKING :
  • The undertaking
  • Gladstone
  • Crapper
  • The right hand of the Father
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9781324003977
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The depositions : new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be
Title
The depositions
Title remainder
new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be
Statement of responsibility
Thomas Lynch ; foreword by Alan Ball
Title variation
Essays on being and ceasing to be
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Language
eng
Summary
"A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small- town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each exploring identity and humanity with Lynch's signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions provides an essential selection from these masterful collections, as well as new essays in which the space between Lynch's hyphenated identities-as an Irish American, undertaker-poet-is narrowed by the deaths of poets, the funerals of friends, the loss of neighbors, intimate estrangements, and the slow demise of a beloved dog. Meanwhile, the press of the author's own mortality sharpens a curiosity about where we come from, where we go, and what it means. In The Depositions, Lynch continues to illuminate not only how we die, but also how we live"--
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1948-
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Lynch, Thomas
Dewey number
814/.54
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no index present
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essays
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1957-
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Ball, Alan
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  • Life
  • Death
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Meaning (Philosophy)
  • Death
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Life
  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Meaning (Philosophy)
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The depositions : new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be, Thomas Lynch ; foreword by Alan Ball
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Publication
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Contents
  • The golfatorium
  • Tract
  • from
  • BODIES IN MOTION AND AT REST :
  • Introduction
  • Bodies in motion and at rest
  • Fish stories
  • Y2Kat
  • The way we are
  • Reno
  • Foreword by
  • from
  • BOOKING PASSAGE :
  • Introduction-
  • The ethnography of everyday life
  • The brother
  • The same but different
  • The sisters Godhelpus
  • from
  • THE GOOD FUNERAL :
  • How we come to be the ones we are
  • Alan Ball
  • The theory and practice of cremation
  • NEW ESSAYS :
  • Introit
  • Miracles
  • Moveable and steadfast feasts
  • Whence & whither
  • The done thing
  • from
  • THE UNDERTAKING :
  • The undertaking
  • Gladstone
  • Crapper
  • The right hand of the Father
Control code
on1084330373
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
ix, 342 pages
Isbn
9781324003977
Lccn
2019032130
System control number
(OCoLC)1084330373
Label
The depositions : new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be, Thomas Lynch ; foreword by Alan Ball
Publication
Copyright
Contents
  • The golfatorium
  • Tract
  • from
  • BODIES IN MOTION AND AT REST :
  • Introduction
  • Bodies in motion and at rest
  • Fish stories
  • Y2Kat
  • The way we are
  • Reno
  • Foreword by
  • from
  • BOOKING PASSAGE :
  • Introduction-
  • The ethnography of everyday life
  • The brother
  • The same but different
  • The sisters Godhelpus
  • from
  • THE GOOD FUNERAL :
  • How we come to be the ones we are
  • Alan Ball
  • The theory and practice of cremation
  • NEW ESSAYS :
  • Introit
  • Miracles
  • Moveable and steadfast feasts
  • Whence & whither
  • The done thing
  • from
  • THE UNDERTAKING :
  • The undertaking
  • Gladstone
  • Crapper
  • The right hand of the Father
Control code
on1084330373
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
ix, 342 pages
Isbn
9781324003977
Lccn
2019032130
System control number
(OCoLC)1084330373

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