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'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.
Includes poems that inspired the libretto for Eady's music-drama
Running Man, a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 01/15/2001
ISBN: 9780399147203
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.36w x 0.35d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2000 pg. 1729
Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 903
Library Journal 01/01/2001 pg. 112
Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1102
School Library Journal 07/01/2001 pg. 136
Multicultural Review 12/01/2001 pg. 74
