Walking Papers

By Thomas Lynch

Book Overview

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
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393042081
• ISBN13: 9780393042085
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"