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The golden shovel anthology

new poems honoring Gwendolyn Brooks

By Peter Kahn,Ravi Shankar,Patricia Smith,Terrance Hayes

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Publish Date

2017

Publisher

University of Arkansas Press

Language

eng

Pages

308

Description:

"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" --