Two Irish-American writers engage questions of mortality with the sense of humor proper to a wake.
Thomas Lynch
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Authors Alice McDermott and Thomas Lynch make the case for ‘the good funeral’
The stories we tell about what happens when we die have lost their certainty.
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ST. KEVIN AND THE TEMPTRESS : after Heaney
After that business with the blackbird, Kevinsore-shouldered from his mortifications—the lent-long arms reach and supplications in service of life’s mysteries and flights—lay himself out, spread-eagled in paschal light,cozy in a copse of alders, cones and catkins, and sle