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A Bend in the Road Poems by Eamon J McEneaney

By
TOM DEIGNAN,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:17 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:52 PM

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Eamon J. McEneaney was in the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993. He emerged from the frightening conflagration as a hero. McEneaney, all of whose grandparents came to the U.S. from Ireland, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, and eventually rose to the position of vice president. When a bomb exploded underneath the twin towers that February day 12 years ago, McEneaney led 60 coworkers through dark and smoke-filled stairways to safety. Sadly, McEneaney did not escape on 9/11. Now, thanks to McEneaney's wife Bonnie as well as a circle of friends at Cornell, one of McEneaney's wishes has become a reality. "A Bend in the Road: Poems by Eamon J. McEneaney" has been published. The poems reflect McEneaney's many interests: sports, family, humor, city life and, of course, "all things Irish." In a brief Foreword, Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature at Cornell, even compares McEneaney's poems to those of Yeats. "Like Yeats, McEneaney imagines the world awash in splendor, politics and announcements; like Yeats, McEneaney knows that the mythic is tied to history and the heart." But there is also a sense of mortality, of an obsession with death, in other McEneaney poems, something that surely heightened following the 1993 Trade Center bombing. McEneaney's wife Bonnie writes in a touching introduction. "Although published posthumously, this book of poetry brings to reality one of the dreams (Eamon) had - to publish his poems so that they could be shared with others, and be a frame of reflection. His poetry serves as a reminder of the fragility of life, that each day we are given is a precious gift - this should never be forgotten." ($30 /137 pages /Cornell University Library)

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