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THE SUNDAY POEM: “SORROW IS NOT MY NAME” BY ROSS GAY
By Ross Gay. Ross Gay, "Sorrow Is Not My Name" om Brgg the Shovel Down.
Copyright © 2011 by Ross Gay. Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. Gay is an edor wh the chapbook prs Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Prs and is a foundg edor, wh Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the onle sports magaze Some Call Ball.
Overview“Sorrow Is Not My Name” is a 23-le, heavily enjambed ee verse poem by Ross Gay. ” Both poems exame them of ath and mortaly, ultimately advotg for life and hope, albe different ways; Gay’s poem echo Brooks’s fal le, “Remember, green’s your lor.
"SORROW IS NOT MY NAME", BY ROSS GAY
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Analysis: “Sorrow Is Not My Name”Before the first l of “Sorrow Is Not My Name, ” Gay tablish that his poem is nversatn wh Gwendolyn Brooks, one of the most important poets of the 20th century. While Gay do not specify which of Brooks’s poems he is answerg, the fal l of “Sorrow Is Not My Name” adhere closely to the fal l of Brooks’s 1986 poem “To the Young Who Want to Die. ”Gay’s poem begs dismissal: “No matter the pull toward brk.
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” In the end, Ross Gay remds as always that the simplt thgs keep attached to this broken but still praise-worthy world. Invatn for Wrg & Reflectn: You might start wrg, g the same two words that beg Ross Gay’s poem (and which he repeats), “No matter... See where that repetn leads you, and let your tun take over as you wre om a place of gratu for the simplt thgs by Natasha KomodaABOUT THE POET: Ross Gay.
Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. Mortaly and DeathGay’s “Sorrow Is Not My Name” directly rponds to Gwendolyn Brooks’s “To the Young Who Want to Die, ” takg up her cry to live life vibrantly and fully, rather than succumb to vlence and ath.