Research Catalog

Title

The golden shovel anthology : new poems honoring Gwendolyn Brooks / edited by Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith ; with a foreword by Terrance Hayes.

Publication

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Kahn, Peter
• Shankar, Ravi, 1975-
• Smith, Patricia, 1955-
• Hayes, Terrance
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

li, 278 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks's original. An array of writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates, have written poems for this anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Nikki Giovani, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets" --

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Alternative Title

Poems honoring Gwendolyn Brooks

Subject

• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 > Influence
• 2000-2099
• Poetry, Modern > 21st century
• American poetry
• POETRY / American / African American
• POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)

Genre/Form

• Experimental poetry
• Poetry

Note

• "Celebates the life and work of poet ... Gwendolyn Brooks through a ... new poetic form, the golden shovel, created by Terrance Hayes. The last words of each line in a golden shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks's original. An array of [more than 300] writers, including [unknown and lesser-known authors as well as] Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates, have written poems for this ,,, anthology"--Page 2 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword by Terrance Hayes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Golden Shovel -- Terrance Hayes; Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks; A Sunset of the City; kitchenette building; Boy Breaking Glass; a song in the front yard; The Bean Eaters; The Anniad; After -- Aracelis Girmay; What There Is to Spend -- Hailey Leithauser; Appendix to the Anniad; Next Time Honey -- Paul Martinez-Pompa; A Halo for Her Invisible Hair -- Rachel Richardson; The Artists' and Models' Ball; Weather Report -- Anne Shaw; An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire; First Summer Song -- Pattiann Rogers.; An Aspect of Love -- Ren?e WatsonBallad of Pearl May Lee; Stay, Dear -- Susan Wheeler; The Ballad of Rudolph Reed; Conjunction -- Andrew Motion; The Bean Eaters; Resurrection -- Bonnie Jo Campbell; The Parrot Man -- Caitlin Doyle; The Fava Bean-Eaters -- Sandra M. Gilbert; At the Evening of Life -- Nikki Giovanni; Evening -- Diane Glancy; Roadside Diner: Fairfield, Maine -- Jack Powers; Next to the Flatware --^
• Christian Robinson; New Year's Eve in Times Square -- Philip Schultz; Beverly Hills, Chicago; Golden Shovel Buddha -- Didi Jackson; Stand Your Ground -- Major Jackson.; September, Chicago -- Angela Narciso TorresThe Birth in a Narrow Room; Child Tipping Forever -- Jenny Boully; The Blackstone Rangers; What is betrayal but a construct? -- Judy Blundell; The Ache -- Chelsea Dixon; A Love Jones in a Booming Economy -- Randall Horton; 1972 ford ltd -- Quraysh Ali Lansana; FUNERAL Sign -- Mike Puican; After the Eulogy -- Kelly Reuter; Cure and Curry -- Natalie Richardson; i. Cecil Park-High as the Swings -- Debris Stevenson; ii. Dutch Pot Dancing -- Debris Stevenson; Boy Breaking Glass; Imagine This -- Meena Alexander; Boys Breaking Glass -- Catherine Brogan.; Asked why I always have to be so negative I -- Hannah GambleOrnithology -- M. Ayodele Heath; Behind in the Count -- Pam Houston; Sleeping under Stars -- Troy Jollimore; The Second Going -- Philip Levine; Meadowlands --^
• Erika Meitner; Opening Ceremonies, 2012 -- Michael Meyerhofer; When He Doesn't Come Home -- Deb Nystrom; Boy Breaking Glass, Peckham -- Clare Pollard; Vagrant -- Emmett, Jim, and Karen Shepard; That Boy Is Still Breaking Glass -- David Wagoner; So There -- John Corey Whaley; A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.; Tallahatchie -- Terry BlackhawkGrown Up -- Kwame Dawes; Yazoo City -- Raven Hogue; Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat; anasema kwa haraka -- LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs; The Maid -- Eugene Gloria; At the Capitol Hill Suites, 1985 -- Maxine Kumin; In a Red Hat -- Stephanie Strickland; The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock; Bleeding Brownish Boy -- Sharon Draper; Meanwhile in the Henhouse -- Rita Williams-Garcia; In Little Rock -- Jake Adam York; The Chicago Picasso; The Seahorse -- Maura Stanton; Ars Poetica Composed While Dressing in the Dark -- Kevin Stein ; Tender Visits -- Liane Strauss.

ISBN

• 1682260240
• 9781682260241

OCLC

• 953552679
• SCSB-12283719

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library