Shaman Rises (Dec, 2013) ~ Final ~ Excerpt.Murphy | Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reviews Lead's Species And if all that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body-but she’s just come across her second in three days. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. MaIntro to Archery: Pittsfield Township Parks and Recreation.✥ Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.MaMah-jongg: U-M Turner Senior Wellness Program.MaVisitors Night: Ann Arbor Model Railroad Club.Ma“Comedy Rumble”: Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase.Ma“Slime: A Natural History”: Literati Bookstore At Home with Literati.Ma“Curious About Quakers?”: Ann Arbor Friends Meeting.MaMeditation & Discussion: Ann Arbor Karma Thegsum Chöling.MaAnne Heaton: On the Tracks Singer-Songwriter Showcase.Ma“Folk Song Jam Along'': Ann Arbor District Library.MaGuided Walks: Matthaei Botanical Gardens.MaMagic: The Gathering: Sylvan Factory.Ma“Human Error”: Purple Rose Theatre Company.Ma“A2SC Trivia Live!”: Ann Arbor Senior Center.MaChess: U-M Turner Senior Wellness Program.MaBingo: Pittsfield Township Senior Center.MaWalking Group: U-M Turner Senior Wellness Program.MaWeekly Meeting: Rotary Club of Ann Arbor.MaTai Chi: U-M Turner Senior Wellness Program.MaChime Concert: Kerrytown Market & Shops.Ma“Investigate Labs”: U-M Museum of Natural History.Ma“Healthy Living”: U-M Turner Senior Wellness Program.MaMind Matters Brain Games: Ann Arbor Senior Center.MaWednesday Workshops: Ann Arbor Senior Center.MaCoffee & Conversation: Pittsfield Township Community Center.Thomas Lynch reads from Walking Papers at Nicola’s on December 7. And what to make of this?Īt the end the word that comes to him is Thanks. The hour’s routine, the minute’s passing glance-Īll seem like godsends now. The balding month, the grey week, the blue morning, The future, thus confined to its contingencies, Here, after realizing that there are only so many decades that could lie ahead of him, the poet reflects: That gift might simply be the smells from “Monaghan’s Fish Market” in Kerrytown, which is the penultimate poem in Walking Papers, or a slightly more inclusive reflection, as in “Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets,” the final poem in the collection. Always a poet to celebrate the little pleasures, he has learned a kind of gratitude for them, a humility before the smallest gifts. He has been reminding us of our tentative connections to life for thirty years now, and he continues to provide a useful antidote to our anxieties.īut there is something new in these later poems, written as Lynch moved toward and into his sixties. The cataloging and the quiet humor about mortality are devices familiar to Lynch’s readers. Same for the goose as for the gander, trueįor both saints and sinners, fit and fat.Ī place in a frame on some grandkid’s piano,Ī grave, a tomb, the fire, our ashes scattered, The numbers are fairly convincing on this, The poet-who as a funeral director has a certain authority on matters concerning death-reminds his friend that The title poem of this collection is addressed to a friend who might be a bit overly worried about the minutiae of his health. Although his first career-small-town funeral director-would be more than enough to occupy most of us for a lifetime, Lynch has made a second-acclaimed American writer of poems, stories, and essays-from the stuff of the first. And now, at the end of the year, the ever prolific Lynch comes back to introduce us to Walking Papers, his first collection of new poems in over a decade. Earlier this year Thomas Lynch came through town to celebrate the publication of Apparition & Late Fictions, his first collection of stories.
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