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Bringing the Shovel Down Pitt Poetry SerieS Ed Ochester, Editor Bringing the Shovel Down ross gay university of pittburgh press Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Copyright © 2011, Ross Gay All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-6135-2 ISBN 10: 0-8229-6135-0 This book is dedicated to Mikayla Grace and Hannah Rose. And to the memory of Don Belton. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed them the real food without which their dreams will be no different from ours? —Audre Lorde Contents Nursery 1 Love, You Got Me Good 4 For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall 5 The Syndromes: Doubling 6 Bringing the Shovel Down 7 Bull Dragged from Arena 10 American Dreaming 11 The Syndromes: Memorial Syndrome, or Memory 12 Glass 13 The Lion and the Gazelle 17 The Syndromes: Cartographer’s Syndrome 20 Axe Blade 21 Isaac 22 Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew 23 Love, I’m Done with You 26 Solidarity 27 The Syndromes: Horologist’s Syndrome 28 Hollywood 29 Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay Is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the Others 30 Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated: A Monologue 31
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