Snow in New York: New and Selected Poems

Matthew Brennan's is his sixth full collection of poetry, and it brings together his best poems written during the last forty years. Whether in free verse, blank verse, or rhyme, Brennan's poems betray close attention to form while evoking the senses through concrete images and the imagination through vivid figurative language. His subjects cover family, love, and memory, as well as art, history, and landscape. Whether in personal lyrics or in dramatic monologues, Brennan speaks directly, musically, and emotionally. Besides selections from , , and , this new book includes more than twenty new poems.