El enterrador

"Every year I bury about two hundred neighbors." Thus begins the singular testimony of the poet Thomas Lynch. Like all poets, Lynch is inspired by death, but unlike the others, he also lives from it: he has worked for years as a funeral director in a small town in Michigan, where he is in charge of burials, cremations and Funeral acts of your community. Narrated with the tenderness of someone who has dealt daily with the pain of others, in this unique collection of essays, Lynch's two vocations meet and he reveals himself both as a competent official of grief and as a writer who, in a moving way, is in tune with language with the fibers of inner liberation.