BRADY- TO PROVE MY BLOOD-In prose richer than most poetry, Phillip 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 straightforward chronologies here; instead, Brady executes a string of backward flips during which he repeatedly sings his own dirge. What a performance. What a bite out of life! --John Vernon, author of A Book of Reasons