This was a feast of apt words and compound nouns-adjectives-verbs derived mainly from rural imagery mixed between the US and the West of Ireland, but every once in a while Grennan selects, say, a jet or a laborer working at precarious height in an urban setting, and his eye is equally facile and his...
A magical collection that is somehow also workmanlike and at times seems like a conversation among Irish poets because of the shoutouts to numerous practitioners. The best poems are focused on figures, men mostly: there is one involving roofers in New York City that is at once proud, muscular, erot...
This is a rather unusual play in that while it is connected with the main Theban epic, it does not seem to sit well within the epic cycle. Rather it seems to be an attempt by Sophocles to explore some of the unanswered questions that arose within both the Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos, particularly ...
A solid collection from Eamon Grennan, largely pastoral, more often in New York than Ireland, all untitled and not formal poems. The best had a tumbling raucous quality like stones in a river swollen with spring run-off.
Superior to Oedipus the King. It is more complex and interestingly at times undermines the idea that Oedipus fatal flaw is sufficient to justify the treatment by the Gods. It does not have quite the emotional intensity of Oedipus the King.The language is beautiful and it is both later and more sop...
I really enjoyed this one but I can't put my finger on why...... it's greek tragedy. literally.Maybe I'm just impressed by Oedipus making a triumphal end to his cursed and whiny life. I don't know....anyway, I really really liked "Antigone" (the 3rd play in this trilogy-- I read that a few years ago...
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