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Cornelius Eady

コーネリアス・イーディー

Kōneriasu Īdī

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1954 （Rochester, New York, U.S.）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Rochester, New York (birthplace) → Knoxville, Tennessee (residence)

経歴

職業
Poet, Writer, Professor
活動期間
1980年〜
所属
Cave Canem Foundation (co-founder), Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, City College of New York, University of Missouri, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
所属団体
Cave Canem (co-founder/involved)

受賞歴

Lamont Poetry Prize
1985
対象作品: Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
主催: Academy of American Poets
結果: winner
National Book Award (Poetry)
2001
対象作品: Brutal Imagination
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: finalist
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award
主催: Lila Wallace / Reader's Digest
結果: winner
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: fellowship
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
主催: Rockefeller Foundation
結果: fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
主催: National Endowment for the Arts
結果: fellowship
Strousse Award (Prairie Schooner)
主催: Prairie Schooner
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Kartunes

1980年 Poetry

Eady's first book of poems, containing early experimental work with musical rhythms and reflections on Black American experience.

musicracefamily

Victims of the Latest Dance Craze

1986年 Poetry

A prize-winning collection addressing race, urban life, and family history.

urban liferaceidentity

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM: A Chapbook

1988年 Poetry

A short chapbook marked by rhythm and colloquial expression.

musicrhythm

The Gathering of My Name

1991年 Poetry

A collection exploring identity and family through poems about names and memory.

memoryfamilyidentity

You Don't Miss Your Water: Poems

1995年 Poetry

A collection incorporating blues and jazz tones, dealing with everyday life, loss, and community.

blueslosscommunity

The Autobiography of a Jukebox: Poems

1997年 Poetry

A collection using a jukebox as narrator to explore music and memory as conduits for people's stories.

musicmemorynarrative

Brutal Imagination: Poems

2001年 Poetry

One of his major works, consisting of two cycles: the title sequence imagining an invented Black man blamed in the Susan Smith case, and "Running Man," focusing on African-American family and barriers of color and class. Finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry.

raceimagination and responsibilityfamilyviolence
映像化・舞台化
  • [musical/theatre] Brutal Imagination (stage/theatrical adaptations)

Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems

2008年 Poetry

A new-and-selected volume that surveys recurring themes across his career.

retrospectracemusic

全著作

  • Kartunes. Warthog Press. 1980.
  • Victims of the Latest Dance Craze: Poems. Ommation Press/Carnegie Mellon. 1986/1997.
  • BOOM, BOOM, BOOM: A Chapbook. State Street Press. 1988.
  • The Gathering of My Name. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1991.
  • You Don't Miss Your Water: Poems. Henry Holt/Carnegie Mellon. 1995/2004.
  • The Autobiography of a Jukebox: Poems. Carnegie Mellon Press. 1997.
  • Brutal Imagination: Poems. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2001.
  • Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems. Penguin. 2008.
  • The War Against the Obvious. Jacar Press.

翻案

  • You Don't Miss Your Water (musical/theatre collaboration with Deirdre Murray)
  • Running Man (theatrical collaboration)
  • Fangs (collaboration)
  • Brutal Imagination (stage/theatre adaptations)

作風・主題

文体
Plain, accessible languageMusical rhythms influenced by blues and jazzColloquial, conversational poetic voice
頻出モチーフ
music (blues, jazz)perspectives of Black men and identityfamily and memoryviolence and social discrimination

評価・遺産

Cornelius Eady is a contemporary American poet known for musical verse and works addressing race and class. He co-founded the Cave Canem Foundation in 1996, significantly supporting Black poets. He has been a National Book Award finalist and recipient of multiple fellowships, and has had a long career as an educator.

記念館・博物館

  • Cornelius Eady Papers (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale) Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

関連学会

  • Academy of American Poets (associated)

資料所蔵先

  • Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Cornelius Eady Papers)

大衆文化への影響

  • Poems published in major magazines such as The New Yorker

引用

  • "What if that imaginary black man could talk? What would he have told us?"
    出典: Brutal Imagination (poetry collection) (2001年)

豆知識

  • Co-founded the Cave Canem Foundation with Toi Derricotte in 1996.
  • Brutal Imagination was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry.
  • Recipient of multiple fellowships (Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEA, etc.).
  • Married to novelist Sarah Micklem.
  • His poetry frequently incorporates rhythms and influences from blues and jazz.