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 ...
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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.
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Good. Firm binding; light general shelfwear with curling to corners; previous owner stamp to flyleaf and pencil marks to table of contents; text unmarked.
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Very Good. 1st edition 1st printing-signed & inscribed by author-significant stain to page edge-otherwise cover and binding like new contents clean-enjoy.
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Fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, and signed again by him on the title page. 1998, First Edition, Softcover. 228 pp. Fine copy. Unread. Ticket from a poetry reading by the author is laid-in.
