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Cornelius Eady
(
person
)
by
Svaha
Tue Aug 14 2001 at 17:55:14
Born in
Rochester
,
New York
, in 1954.
A significant modern
poet
, his books include:
Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001);
You Don't Miss Your
Water
(1995);
The
Gathering
of My Name (1991),
a
Pulitzer Prize
nominee; BOOM BOOM BOOM (1988);
Victims
of the Latest
Dance
Craze (1985), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of
The Academy of American Poets
;
and Kartunes (1980).
His
honor
s include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award and
fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts
, the
Rockefeller
Foundation, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation.
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 lives in New York City. He co-founded
Cave Canem
with poet,
Toi Derricote
.
Brutal Imagination is a
terrifying
and
exquisite
work. The first part of the
book
deals with the vision of
the black man in white imagination
. The speaker of most of the poems is in the voice of the black
kidnapper
invented by Susan Smith to cover up the killing of her two sons. Other surprising cultural
icons
- who have been created in the minds of white women throughout history - enter this portion of the book and address the primary speaker.
Uncle Tom
has a stunning poem.
An interview and poem can be found at:
http://www.writenet.org/poetschat/poetschat_ceady.html
Three poems from Brutal Imagination can be found at:
http://www.poems.com/threeead.htm
Susan Smith
Toi Derricote
Cave Canem
Things never were what they used to be
Kirsten Dunst
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