Bringing the Shovel Down

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6135-2
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 114 g

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gay, Ross

Über Autor(innen)

Ross Gay is the author of two previous collections, Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Orion, the Sun, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of poetry at Indiana University and teaches in Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in poetry. He also serves on the board of the Bloomington Community Orchard.