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THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION BY EAMON GRENNAN, WHOSE POETRY "ILLUMINATES, CLARIFIES, AND DIRECTS OUR GAZE TOWARD WHAT IT IS WE LOVE BUT OFTEN OVERLOOK" (THE NEW YORKER)
Out of Sight collects poetry from across Eamon Grennan's decorated career, with generous selections from his seven previous books and more than thirty new poems. This is the definitive book by one of contemporary poetry's most sensuous and shimmering voices.
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EAMON GRENNAN is the author of seven poetry collections, including Matter of Fact and Still Life with Waterfall, which won the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the west of Ireland.
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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 afforded ample material for this career-summing volume, which begins with Troubles-infused work from the 1980s that brings war into the home: "Here/ is the light glinting on top-boots, on/ the barrel of an M16 that grins.... And here/ is a small room where robust winter sunlight/ rummages much of the day." Grennan finds people's unfoldings in accretive observations of the natural world, but he's usually closely rather than expansively meditative: his imagery--famously striking, often erotic, and sometimes crossing over into violence--makes his short poems read like "one stanchless wound of sound." A pervading restlessness makes this book a pleasure to pick up in fits and starts, particularly in the later erotic poems, finding here the "neat/ green and tea-brown trapezoids/ of grass and bog," there the "azzle-amber of the shirt you wore." One gets the sense of a writer who bridles at limitation yet is acutely aware of its inevitability, who wants to reveal "everything tucked in like a heart in its beating chest of bone/ so the whole body thrums with it." (Sept.) (c)
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- PublisherGraywolf Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 155597564X
- ISBN 13 9781555975647
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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