Wired for Books

Wired For Books home

Poetry Online

Thomas Lynch Reads His Poems & Essays

Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch, funeral director, poet, essayist, and teacher, visited Ohio University in the autumn of 2001. He read several of his poems and essays during a talk given in the Friends of the Library Room.

In these recordings, Thomas Lynch reads essays from his book, The Undertaking, which was nominated for the 1997 National Book Award. He also reads from Grimalkin & Other Poems.

Listen to Thomas Lynch's reading in RealAudio
(40 min. 30 sec.)

Watch the Thomas Lynch reading in RealVideo
(40 min. 37 sec.)

"From somber to black comedy to plainspoken to lamentation. . . . The Undertaking is a masterpiece."--John Lanchester

·"An exquisitely dressed but subliminally bruised homage to life and its glazed-eyed endings."--The Observer (London) on Grimalkin & Other Poems

Download Free RealPlayer
or
Search the RealPlayer Archives
for a player that will work with older computers
(note: version 5.0 or higher is required)

Wired for Books home

© Ohio University