Eamon Grennan’s Followers (20)

Eamon Grennan

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

January 01, 1941

Genre

Poetry

Influences

Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop

edit data

Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004.

Combine Editions
Eamon Grennan’s books

Average rating: 3.77 · 13,869 ratings · 502 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Quick of It: Poems 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Now 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matter of Fact: Poems 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Life With Waterfall 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As If It Matters 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So It Goes: Poems 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relations: New and Selected Poems 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plainchant 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Light There Is and Other Poems by Eamon Grennan, Grennan 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Eamon Grennan…

Quotes by Eamon Grennan (?)

“Now the two of us here in the dark
have let the fire die slowly down, and it’s your body
I want to see with the curtains open and the half-moon
pressed against the window—your long pale body
smoldering on top of the sheet, glowing beside mine
while we warm ourselves again in the heavy world
of matter, catching fire at the fire we make of our lives.

—Eamon Grennan, from “On Fire,” Relations: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 1998)”
― Eamon Grennan, Relations: New and Selected Poems

0 likes

“All we’re trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen.”
― Eamon Grennan

tags: poetry, poets

0 likes

Polls

It's time to vote for the first Graywolf Press Book Club selection of 2011! You have until Thursday, December 16th to vote on our January 2011 read, and the winner will be announced on December 17th. All new books in all genres from 2010 are included. Happy voting!

Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel by Maile Chapman

5 votes 29.4%

I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson

3 votes 17.6%

The Report by Jessica Francis Kane

3 votes 17.6%

Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy

2 votes 11.8%

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland

2 votes 11.8%

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

1 vote 5.9%

The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young

1 vote 5.9%

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

0 votes 0.0%

The Stranger Manual: Poems by Catie Rosemurgy

0 votes 0.0%

We Don't Know We Don't Know: Poems by Nick Lantz

0 votes 0.0%

I Just Lately Started Buying Wings by Kim Dana Kupperman

0 votes 0.0%

The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty

0 votes 0.0%

Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems by Eamon Grennan

0 votes 0.0%

The Wilding by Benjamin Percy

0 votes 0.0%

Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations by Mark Slouka

0 votes 0.0%

Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

0 votes 0.0%

Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis

0 votes 0.0%

Missing You, Metropolis: Poems by Gary Jackson

0 votes 0.0%

17 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
What's the Name o...: SOLVED. Adult Poetry. Book of poems by a male author. Bees buzzing or trapped against a window - written as a paragraph, not typical line breaks. (Also printed in New Yorker?) Read 1999-2000.	30	794	Jan 19, 2022 12:26PM
Historical Fictio...: Last Letter	8315	2034	13 hours, 43 min ago

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Eamon to Goodreads.

Eamon Grennan’s Followers (20)

Eamon Grennan

Combine EditionsEamon Grennan’s books

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

Combine Editions
Eamon Grennan’s books