The retrospective collection by Eamon Grennan,
whose poetry “illuminates, clarifies, and directs our gaze toward what it is we
love but often overlook" (THE NEW YORKER)
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”
Out
of Sight collects 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.
PRAISE FOR EAMON GRENNAN:
“Eamon Grennan’s poems are like . . . verbal
equivalents of 17th-century Dutch paintings. How luminously they
capture the brimming fullness of daily life, how scrupulously they come to
terms with the complex reality of the limited, given world, how radiantly they
clarify ‘the daily / ineluctable clutter of our lives.’ These poems shine and
matter.”
