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Bringing the Shovel Down
Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?
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Bringing the Shovel Down
Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?
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Bringing the Shovel Down

Bringing the Shovel Down

by Ross Gay
Bringing the Shovel Down
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Bringing the Shovel Down

Bringing the Shovel Down

by Ross Gay

Overview

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822991199
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 01/23/2011
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 80
File size: 205 KB

About the Author

Ross Gay teaches poetry at Indiana University and is the author of the poetry collections Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens (with Aimee Nezhukumatathil), River (with Rose Wehrenberg), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, and the essay collection The Book of Delights.

Table of Contents

Contents Nursery Love, You Got Me Good For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall The Syndromes: Doubling Bringing the Shovel Down Bull Dragged from Arena American Dreaming The Syndromes: Memorial Syndrome, or Memory Glass The Lion and the Gazelle The Syndromes: Cartographer’s Syndrome Axe Blade Isaac Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Love, I’m Done with You Solidarity The Syndromes: Horologist’s Syndrome Hollywood Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay Is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the Others Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated: A Monologue The Syndromes: The Burden From My Car on Broad Street Praising the Snake Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be Love, Here’s the Deal Say It The Syndromes: Mason’s Syndrome Ode to the Beekeeper Ode to the Tongue Orchid Ode to the Redbud Overheard Opera Singer The Syndromes: Undertaker’s Syndrome, or Gravedigger’s Syndrome Learning to Speak A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me Because Sorrow Is Not My Name The Syndromes: Raining, or Washing Again Notes and Acknowledgments
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Poetry
American Poetry
21st Century American Poetry
African American Poetry
Other American Poetry
American poetry->21st century
American poetry->African American authors->21st century
American poetry->Male authors

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