Cultural Writing. Memoir. Modern Irish-American history is charted through the lives of four emigrant sisters and their families “in prose richer than most poetry” -John Vernon. This is a tale of wit, grief, and passage that unfolds like a series of mysteries rippling from “the long swim back through time.” In this work, Philip Brady blends poetry and memory to describe the goddesses and warriors, coal miners and detectives, quarks and neutrinos that emerge out of the journey’s wake, ultimately fulfilling the desire to prove his blood.
“What a performance. What a bite out of life!”—John Vernon, author of A Book of Reasons
About the Author
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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 & 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.
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