"Brutal Imagination"

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This paper offers an analysis of the poems of Cornelius Eady, which demonstrate the difficulty of being human in an often inhuman world, particularly for black individuals in white mainstream American culture.

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"The poems of Cornelius Eady in "Brutal Imagination" are broken into two sections. In the first section, Eady's persona is the black man invented by white consciousness, particularly the black criminal invented by individuals like Susan Smith, Charles Stewart and white American invention, Stepin Fetchit Buckwheat, Aunt Jemima, etc. The second section entitled "The Running Man Poems" illustrates the barriers in white racist society that often tear apart the black family and defer the dreams of black youth."

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