Brgg the Shovel Down by Ross Gay - Poems | Amy of Amerin Poets

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.