num_pages: 273
description: Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live.Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."
language: English
title: Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
titlecomplete: Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
genres: Essays, Philosophy, Death, Poetry, Literature, Psychology, Adult, Nonfiction, Memoir, Humor
ratings_count: 726
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company