In Still Life in Milford Thomas Lynch tenders poems on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographies. " Thomas Lynch's] poems . . . are as stark and graceful as geese lifting off backwater. The poems trace from the rural midwest to London and County Clare, a quiet elegy of loss and testament. But then Lynch is by trade a mortician, and by craft a bard." Amazon.com " Lynch] evinces a steady wisdom drawn from years of passionate attention to daily experience." Seattle Weekly"

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." "Lynch engages the reader with a mixture of poetic and funerary elements....his voice is rich and generous." Richard Bernstein, New York Times " W]hat makes him such a fine essayist is that it's just the business of everyday life and death to him." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Few readers will walk away from this volume less than stunned and grateful."...

Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.

A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio
Praise for A Story Teller's Story---
"The American Portrait of the Artist."
-Charles Baxter
"Probably unequaled . . . for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of
conviction. . . . A book which should be read by every intelligent American."
---New York Times
"In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America."
---The Nation
"The voice of the soliloquist . . . amplifies the drama of A Story Teller's Story, as does the...

The poems in this volume are all concerned, one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity. Lynch looks for this equilibrium between equal and opposing forces, such as sex and death, and love and grief - all the things that make us mortal and memorable.

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. This work is part travelogue, part cultural study, part memoir and elegy, and part guidebook for what Lynch calls 'fellow pilgrims' working their way through their own

Here is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between "the living and the living who have died" with outrage and amazement, awe and calm, straining for the brief glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species.

Tom Lynch is a level headed, freelance Paranormal Investigator who stands out in the crowd. He goes into an investigation, somewhat a skeptic, but always a professional, armed with the technology designed to get to the truth. Julie Williams on the other hand, arms herself with crystals, prayer, and the belief that spirits have something to teach us. Together, Tom and Julie, with the help of their Investigative Unit, have helped many homeowners come to the realization that there is something hiding behind the thin veil that separates the living and dead, and it's getting thinner. When not...