"Agnostic Smoke"
from Eamon Grennan's
Still Life with Waterfall

Eamon Grennan:

Eamon Grennan is an Irish citizen, the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College, and the 2002 Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. His previous books include What Light There Is & Other Poems, As If It Matters, So It Goes, Relations: New & Selected Poems, and Leopardi: Selected Poems, a work of translation, and Facing the Music, a collection of essays on modern Irish poetry. Grennan is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has appeared in many Irish and American publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry Ireland Review, the Nation, Poetry, and the Threepenny Review.

About Still Life with Waterfall:

In this stunning new collection, Grennan broadens his unwavering focus on the natural world and turns it inward to explore the complex realm of human love, sex, and desire.

"Subtle, elegant, profoundly erotic, Grennan's poems resemble the paintings of Bonnard, to whom he so frequently pays tribute. Like all the best poetry, this work breathes an air of mystery and indefinable magic."
— Carolyn Kizer

"Eamon Grennan is in love with language the way a poet should be. I read him with care — and admiration."
— Gerald Stern

"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 available 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."
— Billy Collins

Still Life with Waterfall
by Eamon Grennan

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