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Thomas Lynch The Weight of Bodies The Work of the Dead A Cultural History of Mortal Remains Thomas W. Laqueur Princeton University Press, $39.95, 711 pp. TT T"hy?" a priest asked me \ / \ /...
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SOME OCTAVES ON HOLY ORDERS for Thomas Meagher and Ryan Justin Adams, Presbyters Non sum quails eram A vestibule bathed in stained glass light for naming and claiming, chrism and oil. The...
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PAR RUM PUM PUM PUM The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master’s crib. Isaiah 1:3 The erstwhile holy father in a book on the infancy of Jesus, Christ the Lord, debunked the angels we have...
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Argyle in Agony Some sins Argyle couldn't stomach much. Sins against virgin girls and animals, women bearing children, men gone blind from all but self-abusive reasons gave him stomach...
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Channeling the Sin-Eater An Undertaker's Calling Thomas Lynch If, as Samuel Beckett wrote, all poetry is prayer, my devotions began in earnest thirty-some years ago when a habit of reading poems...
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Commonweal . February 26, 2010 Lament In memory of Robert Foley, 1927–1999 You always said I’d get you in the end— the joke longstanding between us, Foley— as if the twenty years you had...
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Short Takes Thomas Lynch Preaching to Bishops AN UNDERTAKER’S VIEW “Preaching to bishops,” a long-dead churchman told me years ago, “is like farting at skunks. You’ll win some battles,...
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Three Poems by Thomas Lynch Alchemy for Mike & Marilyn Kinna After everything it’s like the tune we keep humming over and over mostly for how it makes us remember somewhere back in our...
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Euclid Comes to Coffee with the Old Farts What sort of morning was Euclid having when he first considered parallel lines? Or that business about how things equal to the same thing are equal...
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The Work of the Dead
(December 2016)
