Poetry Books by Eamon Grennan
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published Date: 2010-07-20
Categories: Poetry
THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION BY EAMON GRENNAN, WHOSE POETRY "ILLUMINATES, CLARIFIES, AND DIRECTS OUR GAZE TOWARD WHAT IT IS WE LOVE BUT OFTEN OVERLOOK" (THE NEW YORKER) Out of Sight collects poetry from across Eamon Grennan's decorated career, with generous selections from his seven previous books and more than thirty new poems. This is the definitive book by one of contemporary poetry's most sensuous and shimmering voices.
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Published Date: 1992
Categories: Poetry
A collection of poems, including "Two Climbing," "Compass Reading," "Diagnosis," "Woman Holding a Balance," and "That Ocean"
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Published Date: 2008-05-27
Categories: Poetry
A collection of new poems explores what is real and worthy of man's attention, looking to the natural world and the possibilities of love, family, and beauty as sustaining forces.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published Date: 2005-04-01
Categories: Poetry
The latest collection by Irish poet Eamon Grennan, winner of the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize we have to be at home here no matter what no matter what the shivering belly says or the dry-salted larynx no matter the frantic pulse no matter what happens --from "[because the body stops here . . . ]" The poems in Eamon Grennan's The Quick of It--each one without title and compacted into ten taut lines--are rendered with exquisite detail and reverence for the everyday elements of weather, landscape, family, art, questions. Grennan's poems are persistent amplified acts of attention, proving with every detail--light glancing off stone, an orange stem framing a Chardin still life, the contours of the body trapping the mind--that we are our best selves when we are most alert.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published Date: 1998-09-01
Categories: Poetry
This first major collection of Eamon Grennan's work ranges from delicate early lyrics to poems that explore in larger meditations the complex realms of family, the natural world, and love. Throughout, the poetry is marked by what Grennan refers to in one poem as "a fathoming/depth of attention anchored in the heart." Edward Hirsch has said that "as a poem of dailiness, Grennan tries to fix and nail things down even as the world melts before him." It is this sharp and profound double awareness of the solidity and fluency of things that is Grennan's most recognizable signature. These are poems that in the minute fidelity of their images and the refined mastery of their language prompt us to experience at a higher frequency the world we mostly take for granted.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published Date: 1995-11-01
Categories: Poetry
Eamon Grennan is a writer who is able to find sensuality in the small gestures of the world--in the look of a firefly, the sound of a step, the tastes of a meal, the rhythm in things. A poet of immediacy and surprise, Grennan can turn our eye to objects caught in the light and suddenly transformed. In So It Goes, Grennan maps a spiritual geography for the middle of life's journey: ahead he sees the dark thickets of mortality; behind, the vulnerability of childhood. This is a brilliant collection--at once celebratory and elegiac--by a poet whose work has been described as the "verbal equivalent of 17th century Dutch paintings."
