Reviews of Still Life with Waterfall

“Grennan proves that his still-life lyrics are indeed capable of movement, or at least that they can pluck from a world, or a life, in blinding motion, a slice clear enough to make us shudder with satisfaction. Sometimes it is the motion in that slice that electrifies.” —American Poet

“The lyric is Grennan’s forte.  A refined, alliterative music that suggests his Irish literary heritage more than it does contemporary American verse, his lyricism could turn industrial catalogue copy into song.” —Poetry

“Exuberant, enthusiastic, and full of energy, his poems give a sense of life lived to the fullest.” —Library Journal

“Subtle, elegant, profoundly erotic, Grennan’s poems resemble 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

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

“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