The Meaning of the Shovel (poem).Presents the poem "The Meaning of the Shovel," by Martín Espada.EspadaMartinNation
英译本与汉译本的篇目除一篇以外完全一致(这一篇是《人声》,出现在《纸上的伊利亚特》之中),因为这些篇目于某种程度上是由阿莱克桑德雷自己选定的。此外,还有《天堂的阴影》与《终结之诗》两部著名诗集的完整英译,但我尚未购得。英译与汉译对照阅读后,我都觉得汉译多警句却稍显混乱破碎,而英译则更流畅,容易懂...
The story of that poem is that Gwendolyn Brooks was walking down the street in her native Chicago, I believe that’s where she’s from, and it was really early in the day. She was walking down the street, and she looks into this pool hall, called the Golden ...
Gwendolyn Brooks’ thoughts on seeing The Pool Players, Seven at the Golden Shovel, which became her poem, “We Real Cool.” Instead of judging the students, her curiosity and compassion cause her to look deeper. She shares her thoughts about the boys’ situation, and is then asked to reci...
‘The Golden Shovel’, a form created by the US National Book Award Winner Terrance Hayes, encodes Brooks’ words through each poem, slipping a line or lines of her work as the last word in each line of the new poem. The breadth of poets and variety of work make this the ideal book...
pieces as a prompt for participants to discuss climate impacts and adaptation actions, the event was held more as a gentle and open space for people to react and process some of the emotions the pieces gave rise to, via a facilitated creative writing exercise known as the ‘Golden Shovel’....
MICHAEL HARPER: When people read this poem, I don’t think they hear it as it was originally meant to be heard. So I’m going to read it as she reads it. As Gwendolyn Brooks reads it. It’s called, WE REAL COOL. ” The pool players, seven at the Golden Shovel.” We real c...
Old Elm Speaks It is as I told you, Young Sapling. It will take autumns of patience before you snag your first moon. We Real Cool - Gwendolyn Brooks THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin...
Her poem for me is a golden shovel from a line I wrote on my blog during National Poetry Month. Both Donna and Kay included images from my life here on the bayou. I appreciate the time they took to read and learn and write a personal poem. We do this in the name of poetry love....
This gorgeous poem could have taken me in many directions, but I kept coming back to this line: “Forever will be a day like this.” Since shorter is much more manageable for me these days, I decided to write aGolden Shovelusing Harjo’s words as a strike line. Here is my “Fall ...