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Proof: Inaugural Poem Suite
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ISBN10: 1961209802
ISBN13: 9781961209800
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: Jul 8 2026
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781961209800
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: Jul 8 2026
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Cornelius Eady turns the inaugural poem into an instrument of reckoning.
First delivered to mark the historic inauguration of New York City's mayor Zohran Mamdani on January 1, 2026, the title poem is not ceremony--it is summons. You have to imagine it, Eady insists, and from that insistence rises a chorus: those called too dark, too queer, too poor, too loud; those renamed invisible; those told not now. What if joy could wear down the rock of no? What if imagination were not escape, but evidence?Moving from Robert Frost squinting into winter glare, to Elizabeth Alexander straightening her back before history, to Aretha Franklin beneath her church-crown hat, Eady braids civic pageantry with private memory. He summons the Colored Conventions of 1830, the 911 call that ricocheted through racial panic, the mock rifles on a Brooklyn rooftop, the knife in sheep's clothes. Each poem widens the frame. Each poem refuses to look away.
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