Walking Papers
If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one''s breast-pocket amongst one''s effects. And Thomas Lynch, the celebrated poet-undertaker is our guide through a world that''s painfully aware of its own mortality; as he says in the powerfully moving title poem: ''Listen - /something''s going to g...
If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one''s breast-pocket amongst one''s effects. And Thomas Lynch, the celebrated poet-undertaker is our guide through a world that''s painfully aware of its own mortality; as he says in the powerfully moving title poem: ''Listen - /something''s going to g...
