Bringing the Shovel Down

"Bringing the Shovel Down" is a re-imagination of the violent mythologies of state and power.

About the author

Ross Gay teaches poetry at Indiana University and is the author of the poetry collections Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens (with Aimee Nezhukumatathil), River (with Rose Wehrenberg), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, and the essay collection The Book of Delights.

Summary

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths.

Product details

• Authors: Ross Gay
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2011
• EAN: 9780822961352
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6135-2
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 208 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 114 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies