{"product_id":"brutal-imagination-9780399147203","title":"Brutal Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award in Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes poems that inspired the libretto for Eady's music-drama \u003ci\u003eRunning Man, \u003c\/i\u003e a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51213320978706,"sku":"9780399147203","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7f585392-1884-45a3-afc4-8154e53b28d2.jpg?v=1745365423","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brutal-imagination-9780399147203","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}