|  Please
join Oakland University in welcoming award-winning
essayist and poet Thomas Lynch to our campus Thursday,
March 6, 2003 4 p.m. in the Varner
Recital Hall (campus
map), where Mr. Lynch will be reading from
his texts. The reading is free and open to the
public, and will be followed by a reception and
booksigning. For further information please contact
the Oakland University English Department by phone
at 248-370-2250 or by email
at mann@oakland.edu.
This event is cosponsored by the Department of
English and the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Programs Fund.
Lynch is the author of three collections of poetry,
“Skating with Heather Grace,” “Grimalkin
& Other Poems,” and “Still Life
in Milford,” and two books of essays, “The
Undertaking,” which was a finalist for the
National Book Award and won an American Book Award,
and “Bodies in Motion and at Rest,”
a further exploration of what Lynch desribes as
the literary and mortuary arts.” He first
came to Oakland University as a student during
the 1960s, and in 2001 the university awarded
him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his
community service and literary achievements.
Lynch lives in Milford, Mich., where, for the
past 25 years, he has been the funeral director,
and in West Clare, Ireland, where he keeps an
ancestral cottage.
Books
by Mr. Lynch at the Oakland University Library
Audio/Video Interviews & Reading by Thomas
Lynch (All links use the Real Audio format, get
the Real
Audio Player Free):
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Audio - Reading of Sex and Death,
from BBC
Radio4
- Audio
- Reading of Gladness, One Syllable at a
Time, from BBC
Radio4
- Audio
- Reading of Driven by the Pleasures of
the Ear, from BBC
Radio4
- Audio
- Part 1 of reading at Michigan State University
Libraries Michigan
Writer Series April 9, 2001
- Audio
- Part 2 of reading at Michigan State University
Libraries Michigan
Writer Series April 9, 2001
- Audio
- Reading at Ohio University in the autumn
of 2001 (from wiredforbooks.org)
- Video
- Reading at Ohio University in the autumn
of 2001 (from wiredforbooks.org)
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