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These were the days long before one could Google up facts ondemand, when writers were expected to just make things up out ofthe whole cloth of imagination: his loneliness, the contempt of locals,the contretemps of clergy—I intuited these, along with the sense ofhis rootlessness, his orphanage and pilgrimage. I’d spent, by then,enough time in the rural western parishes of Ireland and Scotland tohave a sense of the landscapes and people he would find himselfamong—their “ground sense” and land passions, their religioussensibilities. And the two dozen lines of the first of these poems,each of the lines ranging between nine and a dozen syllables andthus conforming to a imprecise pentameter, seemed perfectly suitedto the brief meditations and reliance on numbers and counts thatwere part of the churchy rubrics: stations of the cross, deadly sins,glorious and sorrowful mysteries, corporal and spiritual works ofmercy, the book of hours. Hence this breviary: a couple dozenpoems, a couple dozen lines each, a couple dozen photos.--

Who reads The Sin-eater : A Breviary?

Author

Thomas Lynch; with photographs by Michael Lynch

Publisher

Paraclete Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612612584

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Religion, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.87 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13