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Eamon Grennan (born 1941) is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004.

Though his Irish roots are clear in his poetry, Grennan has an international sense of literary tradition. He has cited as influences American poets including Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop (herself an international poet with ties to the U.S., Canada, and Brazil). In addition to writing poetry, he has translated Giacomo Leopardi and...with his wife, Vassar classicist Rachel Kitzinger...Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus.

Grennan studied at University College, Dublin, where he met poets Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland, and at Harvard University, and began teaching at Vassar in 1974. He returned to Ireland fairly briefly, first in 1977 and later in 1981, and began writing poetry there. His first book, Wildly for Days, was published in 1983. Gaelic poetry became an important influence, particularly, he has said, on the sound of his poems. At the same time, he is interested in the sentence as a poetic unit as well as a prose unit. In an interview with Timothy Cahill, Grennan said:
I have, it's a toothache quality, a kind of pain -- the ambition to make a sentence that is full, that has not gone limp, hasn't stopped while it still has some elasticity in it.
Grennan's career has been long, productive and distinguished, and he has earned from fellow poets a reputation for lyrical skill and psychological intensity. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins said of Grennan:
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 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.


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Total Books: 27
As If It Matters
As If It Matters (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781555971540
ISBN-10: 1555971547
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Facing the Music Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Facing the Music Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781881871286
ISBN-10: 1881871282
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Matter of Fact Poems
Matter of Fact Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555975005
ISBN-10: 1555975003
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Out of Breath
Out of Breath (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781852354282
ISBN-10: 1852354283
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Out of Sight New and Selected Poems
Out of Sight New and Selected Poems (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781555975647
ISBN-10: 155597564X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Quick of It
The Quick of It [Gallery Books] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781852353704
ISBN-10: 1852353708
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The Quick of It  Poems
The Quick of It Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555974183
ISBN-10: 155597418X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Relations New and Selected Poems
Relations New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555972806
ISBN-10: 1555972802
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Selected and New Poems
Selected and New Poems (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781852352752
ISBN-10: 1852352752
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So It Goes
So It Goes (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781852351700
ISBN-10: 1852351705
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So It Goes Poems
So It Goes Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555972325
ISBN-10: 1555972322
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Still Life with Waterfall Poems
Still Life with Waterfall Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555973636
ISBN-10: 1555973639
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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There Now Poems
There Now Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781555977542
ISBN-10: 1555977545
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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What Light There is
What Light There Is (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781852350123
ISBN-10: 1852350121
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What light there is  other poems
What Light There Is Other Poems (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780865473706
ISBN-10: 0865473706
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What Light There Is and Other Poems
What Light There Is and Other Poems (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780865473713
ISBN-10: 0865473714
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Wildly for Days
Wildly for Days (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780904011418
ISBN-10: 0904011410
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