Brutal Imagination - by Cornelius Eady (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry <p/><i>Brutal Imagination</i> is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America.</b> <p/>"A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families."--<i>The Village Voice</i><br></b><p>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's range: 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.</p><p><b> Includes poems that inspired the libretto for Eady's music-drama <i>Running Man, </i> a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for Cornelius Eady and <i>Brutal Imagination</i></b> <p/>"Eady's joy in language engenders our trust in the music that his art has made of love and pain."<b>--</b><i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>"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 <p/>"A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families."--<i>The Village Voice</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Formerly director of the Poetry Center at SUNY/Stony Brook, <b>Cornelius Eady</b> 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.<i> Brutal Imagination</i> 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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