The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks

by Peter Kahn (Editor), Ravi Shankar (Editor), Patricia Smith (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2017

  $26.20

  Celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner Terrance Hayes. 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.