{"product_id":"brutal-imagination-isbn-9780399147203","title":"Brutal Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrutal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes poems that inspired the libretto for Eady’s music-drama \u003ci\u003eRunning Man,\u003c\/i\u003e a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.\u003c\/b\u003eBrutal Imagination\u003cb\u003eBrutal Imagination\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow I Got Born\u003cbr\u003eMy Heart\u003cbr\u003eWho Am I?\u003cbr\u003eSightings\u003cbr\u003eMy Face\u003cbr\u003eSusan Smith's Police Report\u003cbr\u003eWhere Am I?\u003cbr\u003eThe Lake\u003cbr\u003eThe Law\u003cbr\u003eWhy I Am Not A Woman\u003cbr\u003eOne True Thing\u003cbr\u003eComposite\u003cbr\u003eCharles Stuart in the Hospital\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncle Tom in Heaven\u003cbr\u003eUncle Ben Watches the Local News\u003cbr\u003eJemima's Do-Rag\u003cbr\u003eBuckwheat's Lament\u003cbr\u003eStepin Fetchit Reads the Paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Unsigned Confessions of Mr. Zero\u003cbr\u003eWhat I'm Made Of\u003cbr\u003eWhat the Sheriff Suspects\u003cbr\u003eNext of Kin\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Known About the Abductor\u003cbr\u003eInterrogation\u003cbr\u003eMy Eyes\u003cbr\u003eWhat Isn't Known About the Abductor\u003cbr\u003ePress Conference\u003cbr\u003eSympathy\u003cbr\u003eConfession\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirthing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Running Man Poems:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen He Left\u003cbr\u003eHold the Line\u003cbr\u003eThe Train\u003cbr\u003ePiss\u003cbr\u003eArmor\u003cbr\u003eMamie\u003cbr\u003eFailure\u003cbr\u003eHome\u003cbr\u003eMiss Look's Dream\u003cbr\u003eBaby Sister \u0026amp; the Radio\u003cbr\u003eMy Sister Makes Me Up While I Sleep\u003cbr\u003eFirst Crimes\u003cbr\u003eLiar\u003cbr\u003eSex\u003cbr\u003eRevenge\u003cbr\u003eWhat I Do\u003cbr\u003eReplaced\u003cbr\u003eTruth\u003cbr\u003eWhat Happened\u003cbr\u003eGossip\/Denial\u003cbr\u003eHunger\u003cbr\u003eDenouncement\u003cbr\u003eRunning Man\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Cornelius Eady and \u003ci\u003eBrutal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eady’s joy in language engenders our trust in the music that his art has made of love and pain.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003eFormerly director of the Poetry Center at SUNY\/Stony Brook, \u003cb\u003eCornelius Eady\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003e Brutal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry. The author of six previous volumes, he lives in New York City.","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305536180453,"sku":"NP9780399147203","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780399147203.jpg?v=1767723125","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/brutal-imagination-isbn-9780399147203","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}