03631nam 2200589 450 991046474970332120200520144314.00-8229-9119-5(CKB)3410000000002154(EBL)2045576(OCoLC)835768401(SSID)ssj0000818741(PQKBManifestationID)11456738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818741(PQKBWorkID)10842797(PQKB)10395304(MiAaPQ)EBC2045576(MdBmJHUP)muse19396(Au-PeEL)EBL2045576(CaPaEBR)ebr10852678(CaONFJC)MIL586647(EXLCZ)99341000000000215420140407h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBringing the shovel down /Ross GayPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2011.©20111 online resource (77 p.)Pitt Poetry SeriesPoems.0-8229-6135-0 ""Contents""; ""Nursery""; ""Love, You Got Me Good""; ""For Some Slight I Canâ€?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: Cartographerâ€?s Syndrome""; ""Axe Blade""; ""Isaac""; ""Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew""; ""Love, Iâ€?m Done with You""; ""Solidarity""; ""The Syndromes: Horologistâ€?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, Hereâ€?s the Deal""; ""Say It""; ""The Syndromes: Masonâ€?s Syndrome""; ""Ode to the Beekeeper""; ""Ode to the Tongue Orchid""""Ode to the Redbud""""Overheard""; ""Opera Singer""; ""The Syndromes: Undertakerâ€?s Syndrome, or Gravediggerâ€?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"" Bringing the Shovel Down is a re-imagination of the violent mythologies of state and power. ""These poems speak out of a global consciousness as well as an individual wisdom that is bright with pity, terror, and rage, and which asks the reader to realize that she is not alone--that the grief he carries is not just his own. Gay is a poet of conscience, who echoes Tomas Transtromer's 'We do not surrender. But want peace.'""--Jean Valentine ""Ross Gay is some kind of brilliant latter-day troubadour whose poetry is shaped not only by yearning but also play and scrutiny, melancholy and intensityPitt poetry series.Poetry21st centuryElectronic books.Poetry811/.6Gay Ross1974-1033324MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464749703321Bringing the shovel down2451806UNINA