Still Life with Waterfall: Poems

by Eamon Grennan

Overview

Still Life with Waterfall

Whether attending to a painting, a moment of love, or a hawk hunting over marshland, Eamon Grennan, in the words of the poet and critic Cal Bedient, "presents the commonplace in so luminous a spirit that it spreads meaning, by analogy, into our own lives." In this bold collection, Grennan widens his poetic gaze on the natural world and brings sharp focus to moments of intimacy, capturing in fresh verse the age-old connections between lovers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555973636
Publisher:	Graywolf Press
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Eamon Grennan is an Irish citizen who has lived in the US for over thirty years. He teaches English at Vassar College and Irish Studies at Villanova University. He has published several books of poems, essays, and translations.

Table of Contents

	At Work	3
	Shock Waves	4
	Agnostic Smoke	5
	Cold Morning	6
	Grid	7
	Up Against It	8
	Bonnard's Reflection	9
	Wind Chimes	10
	Gift	12
	Rainbow Skirt	13
	Why?	14
	Pulse	15
	Man Making the Bed	16
	Dinner Hour, December	18
	Fallen Branches	19
	To Grasp the Nettle	20
	Ash	21
	Silence	22
	In the Dunes	23
	Bite Marks	24
	Amputation	25
	Current Events	26
	Design	27
	Putting on Rings	28
	Butterfly, Breath, Small Birds	31
	Eye Trouble	32
	Sitter, Renvyle	33
	Killing the Bees	35
	Windowgrave	36
	Caterpillar and Dancing Child	37
	Vermeer, My Mother, and Me	39
	Enough	41
	White Water	42
	After Rain	43
	Signs	44
	Palpitations	47
	Bonnard's Mirror	48
	Near Dawn	50
	Anti-Psalm	51
	Vespers	52
	Full Moon	54
	Shepherd to the Wind	55
	Aubade	56
	Afterweather	57
	Encounter	59
	Landscape with Teeth	60
	Painter's Diary	61
	Claim	62
	Hare	64
	With Skeleton and Shoes	65
	Country Road	66
	Detail	67
	Notes	69
	Acknowledgments	71

Editorial Reviews

Subtle, elegant, profoundly erotic, Grennan's poems resembled the paintings of Bonnard, to whom he so frequently pays tribute. Like all the best poetry, this work breathes an air of mystery and indefinable magic.” —Carolyn Kizer

“Grennan's strengths are on display here: he absorbs the details of the moment, the minutiae of existence, and transforms them into another kind of reality. He further penetrates that reality and imbues it, translates it into his experience, then feeds it back to us as poetry. This lovely work is recommended for all poetry collections.” —Library Journal

“Grennan is in love with language the way a poet should be. I read him with care—and admiration.” —Gerald Stern

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