Fathom

Poetry. "In poems of spiritual hunger and erotic receptivity, Philip Brady achieves utterance through formal gestures, 'revealing in every form and syllable / a double essence.' The pleasures of FATHOM are literary and sensuous, even when the poems address the events of 9/11. Through rhythmic cadences, 'a murmur rippling in lines', Brady brings the world into focus, 'purr[s] "accord" / into the ear of the continuum'. These are poems to savor as they lodge themselves within us"--Michael Waters. A professor at Youngstown State University adn the NEOMFA program, Philip Brady directs the YSU Poetry Center and Etruscan Press. For kicks, he plays in the New-Celtic band, Brady's Leap.

Philip Brady is a professor of English at Youngstown State University, where he directs the Poetry Center and Etruscan Press. He is the author of three books of poetry, Weal (winner of Ashland Poetry Press's Snyder Prize); Forged Correspondences, (chosen for Ploughshares' Editors' Shelf by Maxine Kumin); and Fathom; and a memoir, To Prove My Blood: A Memoir of Emigrations and the Afterlife. He is the co-editor, with James F. Carens, of Critical Essays on James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He plays in Brady's Leap, a New-Celtic band which has produced two CDs of original music.