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Brutal Imagination

De: Cornelius Eady
Narrado por: Joe Morton, Sally Murphy
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Tony Award® nominee Joe Morton and stage veteran Sally Murphy star in this award-winning play based on a tragic true story. Using excerpts from real newspaper transcripts, Brutal Imagination reexamines the case of Susan Smith, a white mother who falsely accused a Black man of carjacking her and kidnapping her two young children. The riveting story, written by poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Cornelius Eady presents listeners with a unique perspective on the harrowing nine days between the fabricated crime and Smith’s eventual confession. As illuminating and resonant today as ever, Brutal Imagination confronts the patterns of injustice that have haunted African American men for decades.

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About the Creator

Cornelius Eady is the author of Brutal Imagination, finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry. The play, based on the book, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre in New York in 2002, and received The Oppenheimer Award. In addition to Brutal Imagination, Eady has collaborated with jazz composer Deidre Murray on several theater pieces, including Running Man (finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Drama), You Don't Miss Your Water, and Fangs.
Eady is also the author of Hardheaded Weather (2008); the autobiography of a jukebox (1997); You Don't Miss Your Water (1995); The Gathering of My Name (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; BOOM BOOM BOOM (1988); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), chosen for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes (1980).
In 1996, Eady and the poet Toi Derricote founded Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization serving Black poets of various backgrounds and acting as a safe space for intellectual engagement and critical debate. His honors include an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Rochester, the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace- Reader's Digest Award, The Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, The Elizabeth Kray Award from Poets House, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Eady is also a songwriter and musician, collaborating with his folk trio and band Rough Magic. He has served as director of the Poetry Center at SUNY Stony Brook and director of the MFA Program for Writers at the University of Notre Dame and as the Miller Family Chair at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
In fall 2021, he will become Chair of Excellence in Poetry at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, a position previously held by the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.

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"When I started to write the poems that would become the book, and then the play Brutal Imagination, I believe it was an attempt to flesh out why it was so easy for Susan Smith, a White Southern woman, who to my knowledge had no Black friends, to pull that imaginary guy out of her head to take the blame, and to do her horrible bidding. I wanted my poems to peel off the layers of that rancid onion to bring to light what she and everyone in this country carry around in our heads. But 20 years after the events of the true story, with Mr. Zero and Susan now reunited in Susan’s head, with the police murder of George Floyd and so many other Black men and women, with the rise of (and resistance to) the Black Lives Matter movement, after four years of nonstop political abuse to anyone who wasn’t male, super rich and White, it now strikes me as less a cat-and-mouse story between a racist murderess and her golem, and more about the process that has to occur before one can take the first steps toward liberation. Art, I think, is good for raising those questions, and also, as you listen to this reimagining of my play, consider what new world will be on the other side of that door. What will we carry with us, and what will we need to let drop and leave behind?" –Cornelius Eady, author of Brutal Imagination

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This was a great production. I read the book it was based on and saw the play many years ago. A listener should come to this presentation aware that it's poetry that's more on the evocative, non-linear side rather than conventional prose writing. It also combines creative interpretations of the actual events with news text and excerpts from real interviews. If you come at it with an open mind and an appreciation for more "out of the box" thinking, you'll love this new way of presenting poetry, historical cases of racial profiling and true crimes. The actors and production team are spot-on. They really bring the characters to life and make us remember the two child victims of this tragedy.

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Brilliant illustration of a past news story!

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Wonderful actors wasted on an overdramatic presentation.

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Belaboured, overwrought

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it was intense, you didn't want to hear the ugly truth, but you couldn't stop listening..

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Any white criminal that blames their crime on a phantom perpetrator - and claiming that perpetrator is if another color, (and/or a member of a protected class...sexual orientation, religion...), when found guilty of the crime - should not only be convicted of the crime committed...but also automatically be charged/convicted of a hate crime and be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

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