Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
Cornelius Eady, “Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet” from Autobiography of a Jukebox. Copyright © 1997 by Cornelius Eady. Used by permission of Carnegie Mellon University Press.
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Poet Cornelius Eady b. 1954
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Subjects Arts & Sciences, School & Learning, Activities, Poetry & Poets, Humor & Satire
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Poet and cofounder of Cave Canem, Cornelius Eady has published more than half a dozen volumes of poetry, among them Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name (1991), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist. Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2008.
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Poems by Cornelius Eady
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, School & Learning, Activities, Poetry & Poets, Humor & Satire
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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