Nina's Blues
Cornelius Eady, "Nina's Blues," from Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems, published by Putnam. Copyright 2008 by Cornelius Eady. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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Poet Cornelius Eady b. 1954
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Subjects Music, History & Politics, Social Commentaries, Race & Ethnicity, War & Conflict, Arts & Sciences
Poetic Terms Elegy
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 Music, History & Politics, Social Commentaries, Race & Ethnicity, War & Conflict, Arts & Sciences
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Elegy
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