Book summaryExactly who would the fictional African-American male perpetrator of the 1994 crime involving the death-by-drowning of Susan Smith's two young sons be? The first section of this seventh collection by Eady, a previous recipient of the Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize, speaks through this complex persona as it addresses race and history. The second section of this book also explores African-Americans, crime, and imagination. This volume was nominated for the 2001 National Book Award. Media reviews"Directness is a strength in these poems, not a weakness. Monologues, they are not speeches; bare, bleak, they are not simple. As I read them, I felt that Eady probably refines his poems by speaking them aloud, that he cultivates the art of manipulating an audience. The lessons of oral performance have served him well. He knows how to strike to the center of a poem, fire a song and link the sparks together into an effective whole, stopping exactly at the point where the jagged edge whets the reader's appetite for more." |
Brutal Imagination: Poemsby Eady, CorneliusFirst Edition
Book desription: E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2001. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Brutal Imagination is made up of two cycles of poems, each confronting the same subject: The black man in white America. The first cycle deals with the vision of the black man in white imagination. Narrated largely by the black kidnapper invented by Susan Smith to cover up the killing of her two small sons, it displays Eady's stunning range: His deft wit, inventiveness, and skillfully targeted anger. The second cycle, "Running Man," presents poems Eady drew on for his libretto for the music-drama of the same name, which was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist. The focus is the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart, and the title character represents every dreaming black boy who ever crashed into the limits set by the white world as he reached manhood. They are the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers. 108 pages. The cover has a very small spot on the white area. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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