Matter of Fact Poems

by Grennan, Eamon

• ISBN13: 9781555975005
• ISBN10: 1555975003
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-27
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

Eamon Grennan's keen vision is "obsessed and suffused with light, befitting a poetry totally devoted to accurate observation and description" (The Irish Times) Don't look back. Think Orpheus. Pillar of salt. One breath, then another. Sweat of apprehension. Still life with wind and breadcrumbs. from "Injunction" Matter of fact. Matter of life or death. What does it matter? Eamon Grennan's new poems seek out criteria with which to question what is unreliable and what is real, what is mere distraction and what is worthy of attention, what is speculation and what is fact. In prose poems and lyrics, Grennan turns to the immutable power of the natural world and the sustaining forces of art to assign value to what endures, to what finally matters. Here is the poet deeply attuned to the everyday possibilities of love, family, and beauty, and inMatter of Fact, he is at his unmistakable best.

Author Biography

Eamon Grennan is the author of The Quick of It and Still Life with Waterfall, which won the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the west of Ireland.

Table of Contents

Start of March, Connemara	p. 3
Nervous System	p. 4
What It Is	p. 6
Wintermouth	p. 7
Like	p. 8
Look Out	p. 9
Injunction	p. 11
Trees in Time	p. 12
Solitary	p. 13
In Venice on My Father's Anniversary	p. 14
Wing and Prayer	p. 15
In Passing	p. 16
Innocence of Things	p. 17
Soundings	p. 18
City Dusk	p. 20
Darkling Blues	p. 21
Of Space and Skin	p. 22
Another Week with Holderlin	p. 23
With Flowers and Curtain	p. 26
April Note	p. 27
Foam	p. 28
Steam in Sunlight	p. 33
Night	p. 34
Meteor Shower, Long Beach Island	p. 35
Hawklight	p. 36
Breath	p. 38
A Few Facts	p. 39
Looking for a Book on Chardin	p. 40
Another Country	p. 41
What Matter	p. 43
Discovery	p. 44
Something	p. 45
In Bits	p. 46
Signland	p. 48
Weather Channel	p. 50
Turtle and Two Girls	p. 51
Simple Pleasures	p. 52
Exhibition	p. 53
Ladybird and Mother	p. 54
Going Gone	p. 55
Rome, the Pantheon	p. 56
On Change	p. 57
Cezanne and Family	p. 59
Bee Fuchsia	p. 60
Edge	p. 63
The Next Parish	p. 64
The Curve	p. 65
Smoke	p. 67
Then	p. 68
And So On	p. 69
Drained Lake, Heron in Mud	p. 70
Harmonia	p. 71
Fix	p. 72
Goldcrest	p. 74
Photo of Matisse	p. 76
Beholding the Hare	p. 77
A Thrush by Utamaro	p. 79
What Happened	p. 80
Steady Now	p. 82
Wildflowers in a Glass of Water	p. 83
Intermission	p. 85
Opposing Forces	p. 86
Workman	p. 87
The Search	p. 88
Cold Comfort	p. 90
Notes	p. 95
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