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The Quick of It

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Cover design: Jeenee Lee Design / Cover art: North Wing, Linda Rossi

The poems in Eamon Grennan’s The Quick of It—each one without title and compacted into ten taut lines—are rendered with exquisite detail and reverence for the everyday elements of weather, landscape, family, art, all sorts of questions.

Price: $14.00 USD
Poetry 1-55597-418-X, 72 pages, Paper

Grennan’s poems are persistent, amplified acts of attention, proving with every detail—light glancing off stone, an orange stem framing a Chardin still life, the contours of the body trapping the mind—that we are our best selves when we are most alert.

“Eamon Grennan’s writing brings us over and over again to the discovery of what is naturally so and had passed unrecognized.” —W.S. Merwin

“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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