New & Selected Poems: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Grennan, Eamon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555972802 ISBN 13: 9781555972806

Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

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."

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Review:

"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey, and fewer still are as attentive to the available marvels of the earth. To read him is to be led on a walk through the natural world of clover and cricket and, most of all, light, and to face with an open heart the complexity of being human." --Billy Collins"Eamon Grennan is a kind of Celtic amphibian, at home both in Ireland and America. He has the eye of a painter, the quiet ferocity of a Bonnard or Vermeer, intent on transfixing the moment. He has developed a long crackling line, with sentences like whiplashes, making poems that seem at once both mobile and at rest." --John Montague

About the Author:

Eamon Grennan is an Irish citizen who has lived in the United States for over thirty years. He teaches English at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. His books include So It Goes (finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize), What Light There Is and Other Poems (finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize), As If It Matters, and Leopardi: Selected Poems, which received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1555972802
• ISBN 13: 9781555972806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224