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 get you in the end./The numbers are fairly convincing on this, /hovering, as they do, around a hundred/percent. We die. And more’s the pity.’In this, his fourth collection of poems — his first in the new century — Lynch attends to the flora and fauna and fellow pilgrims: dead poets and living masters, a former president and his factotums, a sin-eater and inseminator. Faux-bardic and mock-epic, deft at lament and lampoon, accusation and dispensation, fete and feint, Lynch’s poems are powerful medicines, tonics for the long haul and home-going.
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