Brutal Imagination

Poems

Cornelius Eady

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English

G P Putnam's Sons
15 January 2001

Poetry

Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry

Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject- the black man in America.

""A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.""-The Village Voice

This poetry collection explores the vision of the black man in white imagination, as well as the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart. These two main themes showcase Cornelius Eady'srange- his deft wit, inventiveness, and skillfully targeted anger, and the way in which he combines the subtle with the charged, street idiom with elegant inversions, harsh images with the sweetly ordinary.

Includes poems that inspired the libretto for Eady's music-drama Running Man, a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

By: Cornelius Eady
Imprint: G P Putnam's Sons
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 119g
ISBN: 9780399147203
ISBN 10: 0399147209
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 15 January 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brutal ImaginationBrutal Imagination 1 How I Got Born My Heart Who Am I? Sightings My Face Susan Smith's Police Report Where Am I? The Lake The Law Why I Am Not A Woman One True Thing Composite Charles Stuart in the Hospital 2 Uncle Tom in Heaven Uncle Ben Watches the Local News Jemima's Do-Rag Buckwheat's Lament Stepin Fetchit Reads the Paper 3 The Unsigned Confessions of Mr. Zero What I'm Made Of What the Sheriff Suspects Next of Kin What Is Known About the Abductor Interrogation My Eyes What Isn't Known About the Abductor Press Conference Sympathy Confession 4 Birthing The Running Man Poems: When He Left Hold the Line The Train Piss Armor Mamie Failure Home Miss Look's Dream Baby Sister & the Radio My Sister Makes Me Up While I Sleep First Crimes Liar Sex Revenge What I Do Replaced Truth What Happened Gossip/Denial Hunger Denouncement Running Man

Formerly director of the Poetry Center at SUNY/Stony Brook, Cornelius Eady is currently distinguished writer-in-residence at the City College of New York. He has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, and fellowships from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Brutal Imagination was nominated for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry. The author of six previous volumes, he lives in New York City.

Reviews for Brutal Imagination: Poems

Eady's joy in language engenders our trust in the music that his art has made of love and pain. --Publishers Weekly Eady fuses headlines and history with language that is a field holler, a blues shout, a hip hop rap that combusts inside the soul and keep on burning. --Bebe Moore Campbell