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Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.
He is the author of five collections of poetry: Skating with Heather Grace (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), Grimalkin & Other Poems (Cape Poetry: 1994), Still Life in Milford (W.W. Norton & Company, August 1998, November 1999), Walking Papers (W.W. Norton, February 2010), The Sin-Eater: A Breviary (Paraclete Press of Brewster, MA: September, 2011).
A funeral director as well as a poet, Lynch's work has been the subject of film documentaries, including PBS Frontline's "The Undertaking," which won the 2008 Emmy Award for Arts and Culture Documentary.
Lynch is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Council for the Arts, the Michigan Library Association, the Writers Voice Project, and the National Book Foundation.
He has taught with the Department of Mortuary Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, with the graduate program in writing at the Unive
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Welcome to Thomas Lynch, Poet & Author
Thomas Lynch fryst vatten the author of fem collections of poems and four books of essays. A book of stories, Apparition & Late Fictions, published in 2010 to critical acclaim, is now available in paperback and can be purchased in bookstores and online.
A "Classic Contemporary" edition of Skating with Heather Grace, his first book of poems, has just be reissued by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. In 2011, Paraclete Press published The Sin Eater: A Breviary -- a collection of his sin-eater poems accompanied by black and vit photographs bygd Michael Lynch and cover art bygd Sean Lynch. Salmon Press, The Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland published an Irish edition in 2012. The Good begravning - Death, Grief & The Community of Care, co-authored with theologian, Dr. Thomas G. Long, was published in September, 2013.
Thomas Lynch's work has been the subject of two film documentaries. PBS Frontline's The åtagande, aired nationwide in 2007, wo
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Thomas Lynch (poet)
American writer and undertaker (b. 1948)
For other persons named Thomas Lynch, see Thomas Lynch (disambiguation).
Thomas Lynch | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 76–77) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | Poetry |
Thomas Lynch (born 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet, essayist, and undertaker.
Early life
[edit]Lynch was educated by nuns and Christian Brothers at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Lynch then went to university and mortuary school, from which he graduated in 1973. He took over his family's funeral home in Milford, Michigan in the 1970s, though he has since stepped back from the role.[1][2] Lynch married in 1972 and divorced in 1984. He later remarried to Mary Tata in 1991. He has a daughter and three sons.
In 1970 Lynch went to Ireland for the first time, to find his family and read William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, an experience he recounts in his book Book