Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) - Softcover

Eady, Cornelius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887482546 ISBN 13: 9780887482540

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Victims of the Latest Dance Craze was the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, an award given for an American poet’s second book.

About this title

About the Author:

CORNELIUS EADY has published four other books of poetry, including The Gathering of My Name (1991), You Don’t Miss Your Water (1995), and The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1996). He teaches and directs The Poetry Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Review:

“Following the laughter and the compassionate pith of a dauntless imagination, these poems beeline or zig-zag always to the jugular, the dramatic and unarguable revelation of the heart.” (June Jordan)

“There’s a knife-edge clarity under the voice, intricate rhythm patterns threaded through the lines, an improvisational feeling that doesn’t pull against the poetry. There isn’t any linguistic sleight of hand happening in his poetry; the emotion and motion feel grounded to the earth.” (Yusef Komunyakaa)

About this edition

• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0887482546
• ISBN 13: 9780887482540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56