Brutal Imagination
Poems
$24.14
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2001
Summary
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. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780399147203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0399147209 |
| Author: | Cornelius Eady |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | G P Putnam's Sons |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 137mm x 9mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Cornelius Eady and Brutal Imagination“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“A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—The Village Voice
About The Author
Cornelius Eady
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.
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