# Grimalkin And Other Poems

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- Authors: [Thomas R. Lynch](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-r-lynch)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4648-441-8
- Published: 2011-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The poems in Grimalkin - Thomas Lynch's first publication in Britain are all concerned, in one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity. In each poem, Lynch is looking for this equilibrium between equal and opposing forces: the gravities of sex and death, love and grief - all the things that make us breathless and horizontal, mortal and memorable. By means of a wry, mordant wit, telling observation and glorious poise, we are shown the strong tensions that make us human: the forces in our nature that create, replicate, restore, renew us; and those that kill us, constrict our lives, silence us. From spirited invective to meditations on morality, from lyrics of love and desire to a corrosive flyting to his ex-wife, these poems explore an extraordinary emotional range and technical facility but, more importantly, they reveal a compassionate, wise, and genial humanity.