Still Life in Milford Poems
Still Life in Milford Poems by Thomas Lynch is a collection published by W.W. Norton in 1998, featuring 139 pages of poetry in English. This edition marks Lynch’s first American collection since 1987 and presents a range of themes encompassing life and death, history and memory, as well as local and broader geographies.
Readers will find that Lynch’s work intricately weaves together various influences, from Gregorian hymns to the idioms of West Clare, while also reflecting on the everyday experiences of middle America. The poems utilize a variety of forms, including colloquy, narrative, and soliloquy, showcasing the poet’s diverse voices as he engages with the ordinary artifacts of daily life. Still Life in Milford offers a thoughtful exploration of language and its connections to human experience.
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A collection of poems by the highly acclaimed author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. In his first American collection since 1987, Thomas Lynch tenders poems on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographies. From Latin wellsprings in Gregorian hymns, through inherited idioms of West Clare and meditations in a London park, to the plainchants of middle America, Lynch follows the forces of language. The ordinary artifacts of daily life and common speech are assembled into poems of uncommon elegance and grace. Colloquy and narrative, soliloquy and tribute: Still Life in Milford engages the full register of the poet’s voices-as elegist, witness, obituarist, straight-man, and passerby-to achieve a disturbing and instructive harmony.
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