Product Description: 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)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...read more

Product Description: Eamon Grennan's keen vision is "obsessed and suffused with light, befitting a poetry totally devoted to accurate observation and description" (The Irish Times)Don't look back. Think Orpheus. Pillar of salt.One breath, then another...read more

A new collection of poetry by the Irish poet who won the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize brings the details of life alive in works that capture the light glancing off stone, the contours of the body, and a Chardin still life. Original.

Product Description: The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus tells the story of the last day in the life of Oedipus. It was written at the end of the fifth century BCE in Athens, in the final years of the "Golden Age" of Athenian culture, and in the last year of Sophocles' own life...read more

Product Description: Still Life with WaterfallWhether 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...read more

Product Description: In Facing the Music, poet and critic Eamon Grennan gives comprehensive and imaginative life to the modern Irish poetic tradition. With Yeats as his starting point, these essays constitute a suite of intimate engagements with the matter and manner of the poetic intelligence as it declares itself in poets as diverse as Kavanagh, Muldoon, Kinsella, and McGuckian, and as it is found in the work of James Joyce and John McGahern...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Collects lyrical and meditative poems exploring the family, the natural world, and love

Amazon.com Review: By general consensus, Giacomo Leopardi is the greatest Italian poet since Dante. His influence on the major Italian poets who come after him--Montale, Ungaretti, and Pavese--is indisputable. Yet he's not well known to English speakers, largely because his work has resisted translation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Eamon Grennan is a writer who is able to find sensuality in the small gestures of the world--in the look of a firefly, the sound of a step, the tastes of a meal, the rhythm in things. A poet of immediacy and surprise, Grennan can turn our eye to objects caught in the light and suddenly transformed...read more

A collection of poems, including 'Two Climbing,' 'Compass Reading,' 'Diagnosis,' 'Woman Holding a Balance,' and 'That Ocean'

Collects lyrical, meditative, and descriptive poems dealing with the beauty of nature, family and domesticity, and complexities of love

Product Description: Book by Brothy, James D., Grennan, Eamon, Brophy, James D.