Grennan, Author, Eamon Grennan, Author North Point Press $10.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-86547-371-3
The Irish poet now residing in the U.S. makes his American debut with verse that celebrates the quotidian--a child's first day at school, a son and mother curling up together, a bird crashing into a window. Grennan's persona goes for a walk and...
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Eamon Grennan, Author . Graywolf $14 (72p) ISBN 978-1-55597-363-6
"Uncertainly there, but there,/ smell of lindens after rain,/ then nothing/ but heaped earth, fallen branches,/ the animal/ scrabbling to survive." Grennan's new poems take up the regular small catastrophes of the natural world—fro
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Eamon Grennan, Author . Graywolf $14 (72p) ISBN 978-1-55597-418-3
Composed of untitled 10-line poems, Grennan's sixth collection gets down less to brass tacks than to elementals: "So this is what it comes down to? Earth and sand/ Skimmed, trimmed, filletted from rocky bone... protestant/ To the pin of its...
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Eamon Grennan, Author . Graywolf $15 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55597-500-5
“[T]he neon dawn-screech/ of skunk cabbage” or the sun's “calligraphy of angle-spines/ and snag arms”: the facts here are filtered through the senses of someone word-drunk who's raised himself on Hopkins and Celan,...
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Eamon Grennan, Graywolf, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55597-564-7
Grennan, whose last new & selected volume, Relations, appeared in 1998, has spent a career moving between Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he teaches at Vassar College, and the west country of his native Ireland, facing the Atlantic. Both locales have...
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Eamon Grennan, Author Graywolf Press $19 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55597-154-0
At their best these competently executed poems record the naturalist's eye as it takes in fragments of the organic world. In the opening poem the fluttering hands of two old men recall ``the way painted monarchs stop / in the sun and stand, stunned,
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Eamon Grennan, Author Graywolf Press $16 (228p) ISBN 978-1-55597-280-6
""To love the scrubbed exacitudes/ and the dimmer thing/ that shivers at the brink"" is Grennan's project, and this collection spanning 15 years demonstrates the Irish emigre's developing capacity for attending closely to physical experience. In ""Oa
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Eamon Grennan. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-55597-754-2
The latest collection from poet and translator Grennan (Matter of Fact) bursts with a fullness of life as he delights in observing landscapes, art, and all things ornithological. It’s a birdlike awareness, he notes, “that keeps you keeping a peeled...
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Eamon Grennan. Red Hen, $15.95 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-63628-013-4
The delightful and sonically textured prose poems in Irish poet Grennan’s latest (after There Now) pay whimsical and deep attention to the world. The wonders of daily life and nature abound, as in the opening poem, “Encounter”: “Knacky keen and...
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