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I think that every hymn is a flare of longing, that the key to any heaven is language.

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You can actually hear it in his voice:
Sometimes the only way to discuss it
Is to grip a guitar as if it were
Somebody's throat
And pluck.


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As a favor to me
Let's not talk any more about old dances.
I have an entire world on the tip of my tongue.


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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Cornelius Eady

Cornelius Eady
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Born: January 7, 1954 (age 71)
Bio: Cornelius Eady is an American writer focusing largely on matters of race and society, His poetry often centers on jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class.
Known for:
  1. Brutal imagination (2001)
  2. Hardheaded Weather (2008)
  3. Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1986)
  4. The Gathering of My Name (1991)
  5. The Autobiography of a Jukebox: Poems (1997)

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