# Bone Rosary: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover

by **Thomas Lynch** (Author)

**A selection of the very best from one of America's most thought-provoking writers: poems on life, faith, doubt, and death that read like memoir, essay, and story. As _The New York Times_ said, "likely to resonate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions."**

Thomas Lynch--like Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams--is a poet who writes about real things with language rooted in the everyday yet masterfully infused with power:

_I have steady work, a circle of friends  
and lunch on Thursdays with the Rotary.  
I have a wife, unspeakably beautiful,  
a daughter and three sons, a cat, a car,  
good credit, taxes, and mortgage payments  
and certain duties here. Notably,  
when folks get horizontal, breathless, still:  
life in Milford ends. They call. I send a car._

Thomas Lynch spent his career as an undertaker in Midwest America--and in his off-hours became a writer of exceptional insight. _Publishers Weekly_ calls him, "A poet with something to say and something worth listening to." This collection presents 140 of his greatest poems drawn from his previous books, _**Skating with Heather Grace**_, _**Still Life in Milford**_, _**Grimalkin**_, _**The Sin-Eater**_, and _**Walking Papers**_. This is a collection for readers who love all life's questions and mysteries--big and small.

"Thomas Lynch's poems take us under the apparent world to where consciousness is alive and shimmering with joy and loss, blindness and epiphany."--Billy Collins

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN

**Publication Date:** April 06, 2021

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