Thomas Lynch (poet)

Thomas Lynch (born 1948 in

Lynch was educated by nuns and Christian Brothers at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Lynch then went to university and mortuary school, from which he graduated in 1973. He took over his father's funeral home in Milford, Michigan in 1974, a job he has held ever since. Lynch married in 1972 and divorced in 1984. He later remarried to Mary Tata in 1991. He has a daughter and three sons.

In 1970 Lynch went to Ireland for the first time, to find his family and read

• Skating with Heather Grace. Knopf. 1987.
• Grimalkin and Other Poems. Cape Poetry. 1994.
• Still Life in Milford: Poems.
  ISBN 978-0-393-31973-6
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• Walking Papers: Poems 1999–2009.
  ISBN 978-0-393-04208-5
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• The Sin-eater: A Breviary. Parclete Press. 2013. / Salmon Publishing (Ireland). 2012.

• Apparition and Late Fictions.
  ISBN 978-0-393-04207-8
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• The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. W. W. Norton & Company. 1997.
  ISBN 978-0-393-04112-5
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• Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001.
  ISBN 978-0-393-32164-7
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• Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans. W. W. Norton & Company. 2006.
  ISBN 978-0-393-32857-8
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• ISBN 978-0-8143-1924-6
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• Michael Delp; Conrad Hilberry; Josie Kearns, eds. (2000). "An Evening Walk to the Sea by Friesians". New poems from the third coast: contemporary Michigan poetry. Wayne State University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8143-2797-5
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