Still Life In Milford
  • Published: 30 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483916
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 72

Still Life In Milford

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30 Jun 2011
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Wierd, sharp, moving and macabre, this is another highly original collection of poems from the author of cult classic, The Undertaking.

In Still Life in Milford, Lynch casts the cold eye we are told to on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographics. Examining the dynamics of faith, remembrance, and intimate conduct, these poems are informed by end times, tribulations and visions that make up the ordinary enterprise of daily life.

Colloquy and narrative, soliloquy and tribute, Still Life in Milford engages the full register of the poet's voices as elegist, eulogist, obituarist, straight man and passer-by to achieve a difficult and inimitable harmony.
  • Published: 30 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483916
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 72
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About the author

Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch is the award winning author of three collections of poems and three books of nonfiction, including The Undertaking - Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. His work has appeared in the Atlantic and New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, and Paris Review. His commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, the Irish Times and The Times and are regularly broadcast on the BBC, RTE and NPR. He lives in Milford, Michigan, and Moveen, West Clare.

Also by Thomas Lynch

Apparition & Late Fictions
Walking Papers
Booking Passage
Bodies In Motion and At Rest
The Undertaking
Grimalkin And Other Poems
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Praise for Still Life In Milford

A fine and accomplished poet

Harry Ritchie, Financial Times

A poet of great gifts, a humorous visionary

Laura Cumming, Guardian

An artist of great gifts, musically elevating and directing the speaking voice towards a startling power, moving through the accumulation of detail to give a visionary account of the ordinary life, doing justice to its terror and comedy. If it remains the poet's task to say things on behalf of everybody, Lynch shows how it should be done

Sean O'Brien

Like his admired Theodore Roethke, Lynch hails from Michigan - and like Roethke he can fashion long, singing lines unafraid of the old elemental resonances of stars, roses, angels, the Latin mysteries of his Catholic childhood... A mavellous, life-giving collection

Adam Thorpe, Observer

Tragic, cryptic, compassionate and amusing, Lynch's poetry moves in a superb rhythm through the commonplace and the extraordinary

Jessamy Galkin