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The Sin-Eater: A Breviary

Name: The Sin-Eater: A Breviary
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ISBN: 9781557258724

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Argyle eased the warm loaf right and leftand downed swift gulps of beer and venial sinthen lit into the bread now leavened withthe 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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Year:

2011

Publisher:

Paraclete Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2011010839

ISBN 13:

9781557258724