There Now - Softcover
In these short poems full of patient listening, looking, and responding, Eamon Grennan again presents a world of brilliantly excavated moments. Whether watching a flight of oystercatchers off a Connemara strand, or the laden stall of a fish market in Manhattan; whether listening to the silence in an empty room, or the beat of his partner's heart; whether pondering violence in the Middle East, or the tenuous, endangered nature of even 'the fairest / order in the world' - his implicitly philosophic gaze manages to allow the ordinary facts of life take on their own luminous, celebratory, elegiac glow. It is the sort of light he, once again, finds in some of his favourite painters - Cézanne, Bonnard, Renoir, the Dutch masters - light that is inside things and which the painters draw out to our attention. In its melding of a measure of contentment in the moment with an acknowledgement of transience, Grennan's title - There Now - might stand as an epigraph to all of his work.
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Eamon Grennan s poems sparkle in There Now. Vanity Fair
[There Now] bursts with a fullness of life as [Grennan] delights in observing landscapes, art, and all things ornithological. Publishers Weekly
The poems probing observation and striving toward timelessness invoke the shimmering stillness of a painting. . . . There is always so much there in these poems, namely, the ongoing richness of a world full of significance if hardly of transparency, a richness that, as the title implies, both comforts and exhilarates. Booklist
Grennan s style [in There Now] is so distinctively textured, one perception following another, that readers will feel as if they are at his shoulder. . . . [There is] the clear sense that the process itself, the act of writing, opens the world in intimate, surprising, and revealing ways. The Irish Times
Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey. Billy Collins
"Eamon Grennan s poems sparkle in There Now. Vanity Fair
[Eamon Grennan] brings poetry to every part of life: bird, leaf, tree, lake. . . . It s verbal photography on every page, with the lilt of language creating a gold standard in the description of living things. Washington Independent Review of Books
[There Now] bursts with a fullness of life as [Grennan] delights in observing landscapes, art, and all things ornithological. Publishers Weekly
The poems probing observation and striving toward timelessness invoke the shimmering stillness of a painting. . . . There is always so much there in these poems, namely, the ongoing richness of a world full of significance if hardly of transparency, a richness that, as the title implies, both comforts and exhilarates. Booklist
Grennan s densely textured poetry of detail sharpens our perceptions as he teaches us to behold the world with the tender eyes of those who worship life s beauty. . . . A brilliant celebration of the details of the natural world. . . . These are poems that both educate and delight. Sonja James, The Journal
Grennan s style [in There Now] is so distinctively textured, one perception following another, that readers will feel as if they are at his shoulder. . . . [There is] the clear sense that the process itself, the act of writing, opens the world in intimate, surprising, and revealing ways. The Irish Times
Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey. Billy Collins
""Eamon Grennan's poems sparkle in There Now."--Vanity Fair
"[Eamon Grennan] brings poetry to every part of life: bird, leaf, tree, lake. . . . It's verbal photography on every page, with the lilt of language creating a gold standard in the description of living things."--Washington Independent Review of Books
"[There Now] bursts with a fullness of life as [Grennan] delights in observing landscapes, art, and all things ornithological."--Publishers Weekly
"The poems' probing observation and striving toward timelessness invoke the shimmering stillness of a painting. . . . There is always so much there in these poems, namely, the ongoing richness of a world full of significance if hardly of transparency, a richness that, as the title implies, both comforts and exhilarates."--Booklist
"Grennan's densely textured poetry of detail sharpens our perceptions as he teaches us to behold the world with the tender eyes of those who worship life's beauty. . . . A brilliant celebration of the details of the natural world. . . . These are poems that both educate and delight."--Sonja James, The Journal
"Grennan's style [in There Now] is so distinctively textured, one perception following another, that readers will feel as if they are at his shoulder. . . . [There is] the clear sense that the process itself, the act of writing, opens the world in intimate, surprising, and revealing ways."--The Irish Times
"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey."--Billy Collins
Eamon Grennan is the author of numerous books, including Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems and Still Life with Waterfall, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the west of Ireland.
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- PublisherThe Gallery Press
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 185235643X
- ISBN 13 9781852356439
- BindingPaperback
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