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Here are twenty-one poems yoked by thought and language to the filial bond and set in motion by the looming death of a cold and distant father. Whether physically absent or emotionally estranged, the father in these poems has always been a dominating, difficult presence in the lives of his family: the daughter run wild, the son who has disappointed, the wife he never did marry. Watching his father ebb away, the poet wonders at the man's ornery and cantankerous reality even in the face of death - and at his own newfound sense of power. But as well, he searches for a bond, an acknowledgment that he is his father's son.
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About the Author
Cornelius Eady is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Eady, winner of the coveted Lamont award for his second book, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Pr., 1986), is quickly emerging as one of the most skilled and sensitive African American writers. In 21 haunting prose poems, he meditates on his father's death and black American familial realities (the unmarried mother, the girl in school with the same last name) and comes to terms with specific childhood memories. The poems are related through image, not chronology, and the tone ranges from confessional to ironic. Emotions are similarly tumultuous and conflicting. But mobility and tension, stress and stupor give this volume its prowess. It is disconcerting to see six pages of blurbs fleshing out 33 pages of poetry, but that cannot undermine this honest and heartfelt dirge, especially when the "silly boy" who (in his father's eyes) never did real work explains near the end, "They're paying me to write about your life."?Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0805036679
- ISBN 13 9780805036671
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages33
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