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Post by MoonyLuna on Dec 19, 2008 13:17:06 GMT -5
Being drowned fathoms-deep in their tasks keeps Vermeer's women on the Street in Delft alive to us: one sitting where the light is right tatting lace, the other bent, self-forgetful, over her broom and wooden bucket, fully there
in that damp daily moment of making the courtyard shine. Even those two hunkered children, who could be playing as we played in the gutters of Westfield Road a game of marbles, are crouched to ground level, mending
the pavement tiles. All lost—faceless, anonymous and absolute—in the purity of their concentrated commitment (as the painter is) to work, work which makes the moment matter, yields these walls and gables, doors
and windows, tiles and chimney-stacks, all those sticks and stones that shape a lasting worldly frame for these intent bodies whose breath is held till we look in at them and let it out again, enlivening everything.
Copyright Eamon Grennan
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Post by MoonyLuna on Dec 19, 2008 13:17:59 GMT -5
Featured Poet Eamon Grennan
Eamon Grennan was born in 1941 and is a Dublin native and Irish citizen who has lived in the United States for over thirty years. He is the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College. His collections include Matter of Fact (Graywolf Press, 2008); The Quick of It (Graywolf Press, 2005); Renvyle, Winter (special limited ediition, 2003); Still Life with Waterfall (2002), winner of the Lenore Marshall Award; Selected & New Poems (2000); and Relations: New & Selected Poems (1998).
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