LEADER 03631nam 2200589 450 001 9910464749703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8229-9119-5 035 $a(CKB)3410000000002154 035 $a(EBL)2045576 035 $a(OCoLC)835768401 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818741 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11456738 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818741 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10842797 035 $a(PQKB)10395304 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2045576 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19396 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2045576 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852678 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL586647 035 $a(EXLCZ)993410000000002154 100 $a20140407h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBringing the shovel down /$fRoss Gay 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (77 p.) 225 1 $aPitt Poetry Series 300 $aPoems. 311 $a0-8229-6135-0 327 $a""Contents""; ""Nursery""; ""Love, You Got Me Good""; ""For Some Slight I Cana???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: Cartographera???s Syndrome""; ""Axe Blade""; ""Isaac""; ""Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew""; ""Love, Ia???m Done with You""; ""Solidarity""; ""The Syndromes: Horologista???s Syndrome""; ""Hollywood"" 327 $a""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, Herea???s the Deal""; ""Say It""; ""The Syndromes: Masona???s Syndrome""; ""Ode to the Beekeeper""; ""Ode to the Tongue Orchid"" 327 $a""Ode to the Redbud""""Overheard""; ""Opera Singer""; ""The Syndromes: Undertakera???s Syndrome, or Gravediggera???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"" 330 $a Bringing the Shovel Down is a re-imagination of the violent mythologies of state and power. ""These poems speak out of a global consciousness as well as an individual wisdom that is bright with pity, terror, and rage, and which asks the reader to realize that she is not alone--that the grief he carries is not just his own. Gay is a poet of conscience, who echoes Tomas Transtromer's 'We do not surrender. But want peace.'""--Jean Valentine ""Ross Gay is some kind of brilliant latter-day troubadour whose poetry is shaped not only by yearning but also play and scrutiny, melancholy and intensity 410 0$aPitt poetry series. 606 $aPoetry$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoetry 676 $a811/.6 700 $aGay$b Ross$f1974-$01033324 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464749703321 996 $aBringing the shovel down$92451806 997 $aUNINA