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 suond of a step, the tastes of a meal, the rhythm in things. A poet of immedi
Whether attending to a painting, a moment of love, or a hawk hunting over marshland, Eamon Grennan, in the words of the poet and critic Cal Bedient, "presents the commonplace in so luminous a spirit t
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.
The latest collection by Irish poet Eamon Grennan, winner of the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prizewe have to be at home here no matter what no matter what the shivering belly says or the dry-salted la
THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION BY EAMON GRENNAN, WHOSE POETRY “ILLUMINATES, CLARIFIES, AND DIRECTS OUR GAZE TOWARD WHAT IT IS WE LOVE BUT OFTEN OVERLOOK” (THENEWYORKER)Out of Sight collects
"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey." --Billy Collins. . . there goes the sudden shriekof the blackbird . . . all alive inside the inh
These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary
The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus tells the story of the last day in the life of Oedipus. It was written at the end of the
