“This is a book that is sensible and smart. It throbs with life and style and the hard iron of living–the words beaten into tensile strength, all rust scoured into thought.” —Sam Pickering Winner of the 2008 Foreword INDIES Gold for Essays Click the link to purchase this book through the publisher: Purchase By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard Excerpts from the book … Continue reading By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard
“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
“In prose richer than most poetry, Philip Brady proves that to go forward you go back. To sneak up on easeful death, you go back to primeval Brooklyn, mythological Ireland, equatorial Africa, ancient Greece. There are no strightforward chronologies here; instead, Brady executes a strong of backward flips during which he repeatedly sings his own dirge. What a performance. What a bite out of life!” … Continue reading To Prove My Blood: A Tale of Emigrations and the Afterlife
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