Ravi Shankar
1) Correctional
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promotion to full professor was finalized. During his ninety-day pretrial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Center-a level 4, high-security urban jail in Connecticut-he met men who shared harrowing and heart-felt stories. The experience taught him about...
Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Language
English
Description
"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. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks's original. An array of writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates, have written poems for this...
