Poet's second book. First book won 1985 Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by James Merrill. Also awarded Younger Poets Award, 1990 by Monica Van Duyen. 64 pages. Larger, thinner sturdy book, quality red cloth covers, embossed initials at top front, gilt lettering very bright on spine, DJ glossy beneath mylar, gold front and spine, a mosaic of angel forcing Adam and Eve from the garden on most of front, a photograph of Bradley on most of white back. DJ and book, both Very Fine.

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Title

Of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: Poems

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

039458998X

ISBN 13

9780394589985

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Poetry

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Synopsis

Poems deal with human consciousness, mortality, utopias, the past, literature and politics, chaos, art, and city life

Reviews

Bradley is an intensely philosophical and formal poet. But the effect of his often overwrought language is curiously flat. Thus, an ideal city is described as "a place most unlike those gray convolutions,/ Those tortuous inclinations, mechanisms of defense/ The medieval warren in which it had been imagined." He rises above the academic in a tour de force about New York City ("Just when you get used to it, get to know your away around,/ The city you knew is gone"), in a portrait of a Chinese poet in exile, and an ironic portrait of Orpheus ("Fated as he was to indecision,/ To second thoughts, a lifetime of revision"). But all too often these poems are too remote, too engaged in abstraction, to truly engage the reader.
-Kathleen Norris, Lemmon P.L., S.D.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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