Out of Sight New and Selected Poems

by Grennan, Eamon

• ISBN13: 9781555975647
• ISBN10: 155597564X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-20
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION BY EAMON GRENNAN, WHOSE POETRY"ILLUMINATES, CLARIFIES, AND DIRECTS OUR GAZE TOWARD WHAT IT IS WE LOVE BUT OFTEN OVERLOOK" (THENEWYORKER) Out of Sightcollects 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Stumble on, so, to true wakefulness, all dreams dissipated, and stop silenced on a seal-smooth rock half-buried in sand, knowing nothing but the burden of what you’ve seen, pondering the simple specific gravity of it . . .
                                                                                     —from “From This to That”

Excerpts

Stumble on, so, to true wakefulness, all dreams dissipated, and stop silenced on a seal-smooth rock half-buried in sand, knowing nothing but the burden of what you've seen, pondering the simple specific gravity of it . . .
                                                                                     --from "From This to That"