Of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

This is the second collection from a poet whose first was chosen by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The poems here embody a wide variety of structure and stance, both lyric and narrative. They amplify the metaphysical ambition that characterizes Bradley's work and deal with the only two subjects finally available to any author: the mystery of human consciousness and the unassimilable fact of death. -- Alfred A. Knopf.