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Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems

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From Cornelius Eady, one of America's most engaging voices, comes an exciting collection of poetry that at once delineates the arc of the poet's universe and highlights the range of his considerable talents.

Cornelius Eady's poems show him in full control of his considerable talents and displaying a rich maturity as he enters midlife. His poems are sly, unsentimental, and witty, full of truths that are intimate and profound.

Hardheaded Weather ranges widely, reflecting the new found responsibilities Eady has assumed as he transitions from urban renter to nonplussed rural homeowner, as well as the sobering influence of war and the intimation of his own mortality. Yet even at his angriest, the poet has always had a depth of compassion rare in our polarized age, with a sense of humor that is both sophisticated and demotic. These poems will resonate deeply.

As exciting as the new poems are, his selected earlier poems dazzle, too, as they demonstrate the arc of Cornelius Eady's maturation and the originality of his voice. Taken together, Hardheaded Weather forms a moving--and sometimes searing--testament to the power of poetry.

Book Details

Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780399155116
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
224
Authors:
Cornelius Eady
Published Date:
2008-04-10
Language:
English

About Cornelius Eady

Born in Rochester, New York, Cornelius Eady is a poet, playwright, and songwriter who co-founded the Cave Canem Foundation with Toi Derricotte in 1996. Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986) was the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, and Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001) was a National Book Award finalist. The stage adaptation of that book received Newsday's Oppenheimer Award in 2002. His libretto for Diedre Murray's opera Running Man was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist in drama. He received the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award in 2025.

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