The Golden Shovel Anthology - New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (Paperback)

The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner 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 writers-including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates-have written poems for this exciting new 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. The poems found here will inspire a diversity of readers, teachers, and writers of poetry while at the same time providing remarkable access for newcomers, making it ideal for classrooms. The Golden Shovel Anthology will also honor Brooks with publication in 2017, the centenary of her birth.

General

Imprint:	University of Arkansas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2017
Editors:	Peter Kahn • Ravi Shankar • Patricia Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-68226-024-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-68226-024-0
Barcode:	9781682260241

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