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The Sin-Eater: A Breviary

By Thomas

Book information

Publisher
Paraclete Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781612612584, 9781557258724, 2011010839
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4107316 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-03-14 17:24:21
Religion & Spirituality; Nonfiction; REL062000

Description

Argyle eased the warm loaf right and left and downed swift gulps of beer and venial sin then lit into the bread now leavened with the corpses's cardinal mischiefs, then he said "Six pence, I'm sorry." and the widow paid him. So opens the unsantioned priesthood of The Sin-Eater: A Breviary - Thomas Lynch's collection of two dozen, twenty-four line poems - a book of hours in the odd life and times of Argyle, the sin-eater. Celtic and druidic, scapegoat and outlier, a fixture in the funerary landscape of former centuries, Argyle's doubt-ridden witness seems entirely relevant to our difficult times. By turns worshipful and irreverent, good-humoried and grim, these poems examine the deeper meanings of Eucharist and grace, forgiveness and faith, atonement and reconcilation.

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