The Golden Shovel Anthology : : new Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks

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Call Number: 811.008 Go
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"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.
"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" -- provided by publisher.
Contents: Poems.

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