“Phantom Signs is a magnificent keening for a time before written history “when lines were conceived and spoken in one breath” and gods walked the earth. In this magical time of pre-history, Brady says, poets composed “right at the vortex of forgetting.” Then and now, he concludes, “poetry isn’t written; it is the impression left after everything not a poem has dissolved.” Well, it has … Continue reading Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City
An anthology of poems and essays delving into the origin and development of poetic thought, line, and structure. Poems and Their Making is a collection of original poems and essays by a diverse cast of inter-connected contemporary American poets, delving into the origin and development of poetic thought, line, and structure. Each poem is followed by an essay by the poet illustrative of some particular issue in craft and theory raised … Continue reading Poems and Their Making
Edited with James F. Carens Click the link to purchase this book through Amazon.com: Purchase Critical Essays on James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist Introduction from the book James Joyce’s first manuscript to be accepted for publication appeared in print early in the first year of this century. That publication was a review of Henrik Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken and it appeared in the … Continue reading Critical Essays on James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist
Philip Brady 