{"product_id":"9781555979492","title":"There Now: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey.\" --Billy Collins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e                       . . . there goes the sudden shriek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e           of the blackbird . . . all alive inside the inhuman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebreath-pattern of the wind trawling every last leaf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e           and blade of grass and flinging rain like velvet pebbles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eonto the skylight: nothing but parables in every bristling inch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e           of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003esense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from \"World Word\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these short poems full of patient listening, looking, and  responding, Eamon Grennan presents a world of brilliantly excavated  moments: watching a flight of oystercatchers off a Connemara strand or the laden stall of a fish market in Manhattan; listening to the silence in an empty room or the beat of his partner's heart; pondering violence in the Middle East or the tenuous, endangered nature of even \"the  fairest \/ order in the world.\" Grennan's philosophic gaze manages to  allow the ordinary facts of life to take on their own luminous glow. It  is the sort of light he finds in some of his favorite painters--Cézanne,  Bonnard, Renoir, the Dutch masters--light that is inside things and drawn  out to our attention. \u003ci\u003eThere Now\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of the momentary recognition of transcendence, all the more precious for being momentary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128421269744,"sku":"9781555979492","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555979492_p0.jpg?v=1763754871","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555979492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}