The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

Thomas Lynch

224 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir reflective slow-paced
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Every Year I Bury a Couple Hundred of My Townspeople. So opens the singular testimony of the poet Thomas Lynch who like many poets is inspired by death, but unlike the others, he is also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to the...

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reflective 85%
funny 42%
emotional 28%
informative 28%
lighthearted 28%
sad 28%
dark 14%
hopeful 14%

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slow 28%
fast 14%

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