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- The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
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- 2019
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.”
—Claudia Rankine in the New York Times
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.
An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets.
This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.
—Claudia Rankine in the New York Times
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.
An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets.
This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxxi-xxxiv
- Preface to the Second Edition
- pp. xxxv-xxxviii
- Introduction
- pp. xxxix-xlvi
- The Golden Shovel
- pp. xlvii-l
- Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
- A Sunset of the City
- p. li
- kitchenette building
- p. lii
- Boy Breaking Glass
- p. liii
- a song in the front yard
- p. liv
- The Bean Eaters
- pp. lv-lviii
- The Anniad
- Appendix to the Anniad
- Next Time Honey
- p. 4
- The Artists' and Models' Ball
- Weather Report
- p. 6
- An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire
- An Aspect of Love
- pp. 7-8
- Ballad of Pearl May Lee
- Stay, Dear
- p. 9
- The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
- Conjunction
- p. 10
- The Bean Eaters
- Resurrection
- p. 11
- The Parrot Man
- pp. 11-12
- The Fava Bean-Eaters
- pp. 12-13
- Next to the Flatware
- p. 15
- Beverly Hills, Chicago
- Golden Shovel Buddha
- p. 17
- Stand Your Ground
- pp. 17-18
- September, Chicago
- pp. 18-19
- The Birth in a Narrow Room
- The Blackstone Rangers
- 1972 ford ltd
- p. 22
- FUNERAL Sign
- p. 23
- After the Eulogy
- p. 24
- Cure and Curry
- pp. 24-25
- Boy Breaking Glass
- Imagine This
- p. 27
- Boys Breaking Glass
- pp. 27-28
- Ornithology
- pp. 28-29
- Behind in the Count
- p. 29
- Sleeping under Stars
- pp. 29-30
- The Second Going
- p. 30
- Meadowlands
- pp. 30-31
- When He Doesn't Come Home
- pp. 32-33
- That Boy Is Still Breaking Glass
- pp. 34-35
- A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
- Tallahatchie
- p. 36
- Yazoo City
- p. 37
- Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat
- In a Red Hat
- p. 40
- The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock
- Meanwhile in the Henhouse
- pp. 41-42
- In Little Rock
- p. 42
- The Chicago Picasso
- The Seahorse
- p. 43
- Tender Visits
- p. 44
- The Children of the Poor
- What Will We Give Our Children?
- pp. 45-46
- Sustenance
- p. 47
- A Neighborhood in Chicago
- pp. 47-48
- Play the Song
- p. 48
- The Inconditions of Love
- pp. 50-51
- Women of the Poor
- p. 52
- The Coora Flower
- Exhaust the Little Moment. Soon It Dies.
- Two Collisions
- p. 55
- The Explorer
- The Explorer
- p. 56
- First Fight. Then Fiddle.
- Garbageman: The Man with the Orderly Mind
- Blue Graffiti
- pp. 58-59
- The Occasioned Contrition of a Cynic
- pp. 59-60
- Is Light Enough?
- p. 60
- Is Light Enough?
- pp. 61-62
- Gay Chaps at the Bar
- Non-Commissioned (A Quartet)
- pp. 63-66
- Stillborn [In Memory Of ]
- pp. 66-67
- Stand Your Ground
- p. 68
- Jessie Mitchell's Mother
- Jessie Mitchell's Father
- pp. 71-72
- Split Personality
- pp. 72-73
- Kitchenette Building
- Feather and Bone
- p. 74
- On My Eyelashes
- pp. 75-76
- Close Memory
- p. 77
- We pray, and
- pp. 77-78
- The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
- The Life of Lincoln West
- A Light and Diplomatic Bird
- Humbug Epithalamium
- pp. 84-85
- I Do Not Want to Be
- p. 85
- A Lovely Love
- Of Marriage: River, Lake and Vein
- pp. 90-91
- The Lovers of the Poor
- The Empathy Nest
- pp. 93-94
- Logistics for Thursday
- pp. 94-95
- Black Friday
- p. 95
- The Wedding Planners
- p. 96
- The Left-Hour
- p. 96
- A Man of the Middle Class
- Division Street
- p. 97
- Semi-Splendid
- pp. 97-98
- Mentors
- Golden Nosegay
- p. 99
- The Mother
- Daughter-Mother
- pp. 101-102
- Childless Woman
- pp. 103-104
- The Ghost Song
- p. 104
- Missing Miss Brooks
- pp. 104-105
- From the Hospital
- pp. 105-106
- Even-Keeled and At-Eased
- p. 106
- My Own Dead
- p. 106
- My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait till after Hell
- Her Mouth, His Eyes
- p. 109
- After Hell
- p. 110
- The Best Thing to Do
- p. 111
- Send Me Home
- p. 112
- Key to the Dollar Store
- pp. 112-113
- My Own Sweet Good
- From the Sidelines
- p. 114
- The Near-Johannesburg Boy
- Johannesburg 2013
- p. 115
- Negro Hero
- The Killer inside Me
- p. 116
- Exact Change
- pp. 116-117
- Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery
- Incarceration Blues
- p. 118
- Of Robert Frost
- Of Gwendolyn Brooks
- p. 119
- Homage: Gwendolyn Brooks
- p. 120
- Some Glowing in the Common Blood
- pp. 120-121
- Old Mary
- One Wants a Teller in a Time like This
- A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
- Primer for Blacks
- The Hunger
- p. 126
- When Grandma Goes to the Moon
- pp. 126-127
- Pygmies Are Pygmies Still, Though Percht on Alps
- Cosmic Party Crasher
- p. 128
- Queen of the Blues
- Queen of the Game
- p. 130
- Riders to the Blood-Red Wrath
- From Iraq, A Tattoo
- p. 131
- Riot
- Stolen Sonnet
- pp. 132-133
- Gravestones
- pp. 133-134
- Softer Sounds
- pp. 134-135
- Brixton Revo 2011
- pp. 135-136
- The Rites for Cousin Vit
- Blue Finch
- p. 137
- There Are Mornings
- p. 139
- Sadie and Maud
- Sadie and Maud
- p. 140
- Maud and Sadie
- p. 141
- The Second Sermon on the Warpland
- Advice from Ms. Brooks, With Elaborations
- pp. 143-144
- Reflections on Invictus
- p. 144
- Bigly in the Wild Weed
- p. 145
- The Sermon on the Warpland
- A Parable of Sorts
- p. 146
- A Song in the Front Yard
- A Peek at the Back
- p. 147
- My Life Has Been No Smaller Than My Mind
- pp. 147-148
- Gap-Toothed Woman
- pp. 148-149
- Walthamstow Central
- p. 149
- Twelve Weeks
- pp. 150-151
- back yard song
- pp. 152-153
- song in the back yard
- pp. 153-154
- Careful the Blood
- pp. 154-155
- Somewhere where
- pp. 155-156
- The Sonnet-Ballad
- The Names of Leaves in War
- pp. 157-158
- Breaking House
- p. 158
- Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward
- Bird-Feeder
- p. 160
- Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity
- I still don't know
- p. 161
- The Artist
- p. 161
- Third Infidelity
- p. 162
- Strong Men, Riding Horses
- Pasted to Stars Already
- p. 163
- Strong Men, Riding Horses
- pp. 164-165
- The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
- Her Secret
- p. 168
- One Night Stand
- pp. 168-169
- note to the unconceived
- p. 169
- The Narcissist Breaks Up
- pp. 170-172
- For Gwendolyn Brooks
- p. 172
- A Sunset of the City
- The sun had dimmed already
- pp. 173-174
- In Honor of Gwendolyn Brooks: A Shovel Poem
- pp. 175-176
- This Feels Permanent
- pp. 176-177
- Twig by Twig
- p. 178
- Golden Shovel
- p. 179
- Awaiting Dawn
- pp. 179-180
- One Day Soon
- p. 180
- American Realness
- pp. 180-181
- Travel Literature
- p. 181
- Throwing Out the Flowers
- Over and Over and All
- pp. 185-186
- To An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct
- Necessarily
- p. 187
- To Be In Love
- Two Poems for Alec
- pp. 188-189
- To Be in Love
- pp. 189-190
- To Black Women
- To the Young Who Want to Die
- Truth
- No apps for sunlight
- p. 194
- The dark hangs heavily
- pp. 194-95
- True & False
- p. 195
- The Vacant Lot
- The Way He Lived Now
- p. 197
- Memento Mori
- pp. 197-198
- The Lot, Vacant Then
- pp. 198-199
- We Real Cool
- 1950: Norco, Louisiana
- pp. 200-201
- Parisian Shuffle
- pp. 201-202
- Because it looked hotter that way
- pp. 202-203
- An American Sunrise
- pp. 203-204
- How Cool Are We?
- pp. 204-205
- The Old NZ
- pp. 205-206
- Hansel in College
- pp. 206-207
- Thanks to Miss Brooks
- pp. 208-209
- The Golden Shovel (to bury the ghost)
- pp. 209-210
- Kriolising Kulcha
- p. 210
- Jessie from the Golden Shovel
- pp. 211-212
- We, the Basij
- pp. 212-213
- When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story
- Unforgivable
- pp. 214-215
- Before That Sunday
- p. 215
- A Love Story
- pp. 215-216
- XV
- Places Never Gathered
- p. 217
- You Did Not Know You Were Afrika
- She Shall Not Be
- p. 218
- Young Afrikans
- Neo-Afronaut Anthem
- p. 219
- The Real Cool
- p. 220
- Non-Brooks Golden Shovels
- Golden Shovel
- p. 221
- Parenthood
- pp. 222-223
- Last Night On Earth We Go to Wendy's
- pp. 223-224
- It takes so little
- p. 224
- Sky Burial
- p. 225
- She threw verbs and arrows at my
- pp. 225-226
- Death in Brain
- p. 226
- Middle Dreams
- pp. 227-228
- At Johnnie's after Basketball Practice
- pp. 228-229
- The Shepherd . . .
- pp. 229-230
- The Road to Wales
- p. 230
- Social Security
- pp. 232-233
- Robert Johnson's Double-Edged Shovel
- pp. 234-235
- Of Ownership
- p. 236
- pedagogy of a whoopin
- p. 237
- Variation and Expansions on the Form
- Double Golden Shovel
- pp. 238-239
- Behind the Scenes
- p. 239
- Frijolero Ex-Pats
- pp. 241-242
- Sadie and Maud, Redux
- p. 243
- The Devil's Own
- pp. 244-245
- When a Grief Has Come
- pp. 245-246
- Selected Psalms from the Book of Brooks
- pp. 248-249
- The Art of the Stroke:
- pp. 250-251
- A Chat with the Endwords
- p. 254
- A Private Service Announcement
- pp. 254-255
- The Golden Shovel Poetry Prize
- Figure It Out
- pp. 256-257
- (Not Actual) Strangers
- p. 257
- Cold Alchemy
- p. 258
- Title Index
- pp. 263-272
- Author Index
- pp. 273-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610756648
Related ISBN(s)
9781682260951
MARC Record
OCLC
1100767594
Pages
340
Launched on MUSE
2019-05-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2019