You Don't Miss Your Water - Eady, Cornelius
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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.…mehr

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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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Autorenporträt
CORNELIUS EADY is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Formerly director of the Poetry Center at SUNY/Stony Brook, and visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the City College of New York, his many honors include the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Award, and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest, and John Simon Guggenheim Foundations. The author of seven volumes of poetry, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, The Autobiographhy of a Jukebox, and Brutal Imagination, he is cofounder, with Toi Derracotte, of Cave Canem, which offers workshops and retreats to African-American poets. Eady lives with the novelist Sarah Micklem in Washington D.C.