New & Selected Poems: New & Selected Poems - Tapa blanda

"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey, and fewer still are as attentive to the available marvels of the earth. To read him is to be led on a walk through the natural world of clover and cricket and, most of all, light, and to face with an open heart the complexity of being human." --Billy Collins"Eamon Grennan is a kind of Celtic amphibian, at home both in Ireland and America. He has the eye of a painter, the quiet ferocity of a Bonnard or Vermeer, intent on transfixing the moment. He has developed a long crackling line, with sentences like whiplashes, making poems that seem at once both mobile and at rest." --John Montague

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."