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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade - Community Reviews back

by Thomas Lynch
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Her Fine Eyes
Her Fine Eyes rated it 11 years ago
Beautifully, poetically written. An important contribution to the discussion of death (which is not addressed enough in this country). I was most fond of Lynch's personal take on mortuary science: for example, how being an undertaker caused his father to see danger in every activity his kids enga...
Inklings
Inklings rated it 13 years ago
Richard Bernstein said that, "Mr. Lynch emerges as a cross between Garrison Keillor and one of the Irish poets." This seems like a good description to me, though my experience with both is fairly limited. Lynch puts his poetry skills to good use, turning phrases, intertextualizing, crafting and coin...
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