Summary
The first, which carries the book's title, deals with the vision of the black man in white imagination. Narrated largely by the black kidnapper that Susan Smith invented to cover up the killing of her two sons, the cycle displays all of Mr. 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.
The second cycle, "Running Man," presents poems Mr. Eady drew on for his libretto for the music-drama of the same name, which was a l999 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Here, the focus is the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart. As the Village Voice said, "It is a hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African- American families."
Details
- Title Brutal Imagination
- Author Cornelius Eady
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
- Date 2001-01-15
- ISBN 9780399147203 / 0399147209
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.36 x 0.35 in (20.96 x 13.61 x 0.89 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Race relations, African-Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00062674
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
Media reviews
--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
Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/2001, Page 1102
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2000, Page 1729
- Library Journal, 01/01/2001, Page 112
- Multicultural Review, 12/01/2001, Page 74
- School Library Journal, 07/01/2001, Page 136
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