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Walking Papers: Poems

In his fourth collection of poems, Thomas Lynch attends to flora, fauna, and fellow pilgrims: dead poets and living masters, a former president and his factotums, a sin-eater and inseminator. Faux-bardic and mock-epic, deft at lament and lampoon, fete and feint, Lynch's poems are powerful medicines, tonics for the long haul and home-going.

from "Walking Papers"

     You can think of it as punctuation

     and maybe take some comfort from that, friend—

     a question mark or exclamation point—

     no matter, we're all sentenced to an end,

     the movers and the shakers, bon vivants,

     all ne'er-do-wells and nincompoops, savants,

     sage and sluggard, deft and daft alike:

     everyone's given their walking papers.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780393042085
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2010