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The Quick of It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
THE QUICK OF IT EAMON GRENNAN. Graywolf, $14 paper (72p) ISBN 1-55597-418-X
Composed of untitled 10-line poems, Grennan's sixth collection gets down less to brass tacks than to elementals: "So this is what it comes down to? Earth and sand/ Skimmed, trimmed, filletted from rocky bone ... protestant/ To the pin of its terminal collar." Birds make regular appearances, not only as symbols of flight and freedom, but also of mortality: "Still I can smell / The dead--till dark-wings open wide and rise, cutting things off." While Grennan indisputably writes a conventional lyric of man's insignificance in the face of nature, …
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