Still Life In Milford

Still Life In Milford

Author: Thomas Lynch

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1446483916

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In Still Life in Milford, Lynch casts the cold eye we are told to on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographics. Examining the dynamics of faith, remembrance, and intimate conduct, these poems are informed by end times, tribulations and visions that make up the ordinary enterprise of daily life. Colloquy and narrative, soliloquy and tribute, Still Life in Milford engages the full register of the poet's voices as elegist, eulogist, obituarist, straight man and passer-by to achieve a difficult and inimitable harmony.


The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

Author: Thomas Lynch

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0393073408

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A National Book Award Finalist "One of the most life-affirming books I have read in a long time…brims with humanity, irreverence, and invigorating candor." —Tom Vanderbilt "Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople." So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ear tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve pieces his is the voice of both witness and functionary. Here, Lynch, poet to the dying, names the hurts and whispers the condolences and shapes the questions posed by this familiar mystery. So here is homage to parents who have died and to children who shouldn't have. Here are golfers tripping over grave markers, gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides. These are the lessons for life our mortality teaches us.


Still Life

Still Life

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780573624902

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Characters: 6 male, 5 female Interior Set One of the Tonight at 8:30 series, a success in London and New York. The movie Brief Encounter was based on this play. In a suburban rail station, Dr. Harvey removes a cinder from Laura's eye and they fall in love. Subsequent weekly meetings over tea, scenes debating respectability or love, and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever. He is accepting a faraway post and she must return to a circumspect


Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

Author: Thomas Lynch

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001-06-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0393344290

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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."


Savage Beauty

Savage Beauty

Author: Nancy Milford

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2002-09-10

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 0375760814

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Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother—and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.


Skating with Heather Grace

Skating with Heather Grace

Author: Thomas Lynch

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780887485411

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A Classic Contemporary reissuing of Skating with Heather Grace by Thomas Lynch.


Greenglass House

Greenglass House

Author: Kate Milford

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0544052706

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A rambling old smuggler's inn, a strange map, an attic packed with treasures, squabbling guests, theft, friendship, and an unusual haunting mark this smart mystery in the tradition of the Mysterious Benedict Society books. Illustrations.


Zelda

Zelda

Author: Nancy Milford

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0060910690

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Recounts the life of the capricious southern belle who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife.


Raising Babies: Should under 3s go to nursery?

Raising Babies: Should under 3s go to nursery?

Author: Steve Biddulph

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 0007361033

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Steve Biddulph, the favourite number one name in parenting psychology – and bestselling author of Raising Boys – examines how different childcare options are likely to affect you and your child in this rivetting and highly topical book