There Now Poems

✍ Scribed by Eamon Grennan

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 32 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey." --Billy Collins
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. . . there goes the sudden shriek
of the blackbird . . . all alive inside the inhuman
breath-pattern of the wind trawling every last leaf
and blade of grass and flinging rain like velvet pebbles
onto the skylight: nothing but parables in every bristling inch
of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure
sense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it.

--from "World Word"

In these short poems full of patient listening, looking, and responding, Eamon Grennan presents a world of brilliantly excavated moments: watching a flight of oystercatchers off a Connemara strand or the laden stall of a fish market in Manhattan; listening to the silence in an empty room or the beat of his partner's heart; pondering violence in the Middle East or...