The Poem That Changed My Life: Ross Gay's "Brgg the Shovel Down" - Not so very long ago—five years perhaps—I opened the pag of a book and began to read a poem that entirely renfigured my notns of what a poem n do. The poem was Ross Gay’s “Brgg the Shovel Down.” And, as is so often the se wh world-transformg revelatns, the enunter also h me wh the force of profounst rememberg: Here was an stance, a glor, exfoliatg stance, of all I had always hoped and believed about the ways and wherewhal of art.
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"Brgg the Shovel Down" om Brgg the Shovel Down, by Ross Gay, © 2011.
Praise & Reviews“Ross Gay is some kd of brilliant latter-day troubadour whose poetry is shaped not only by yearng but also play and scty, melancholy and tensy.
THE POEM THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: ROSS GAY'S "BRGG THE SHOVEL DOWN"
”—Terrance Hay“Wh masterful rhythms and multiple ton, Ross Gay gets down to bare-bon difficulty: love often tged wh grief, vlence, and ceptn. As wh his 'ltle dreamer, ltle hard hat, ltle heartbeat, ' Gay's poems are valized by the poet's ache for passn and tth.
”—Ira Sadoff“Blendg classic craft wh ntemporary subject matter, poet Ross Gay's new llectn packs a wallop s urgency to munitn the joys and sorrows of life. Gay's poems are 'small lanterns' of 'lightg' and more. ”—ForeWord Magaze“Gay...