{"product_id":"bringing-the-shovel-down-9780822961352","title":"Bringing the Shovel Down","description":"\u003ci\u003eBringing the Shovel Down\u003c\/i\u003e 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. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoss Gay\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at Indiana University and author of the poetry collection Against Which. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Ploughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSou'wester, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. Gay also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is a Cave Canem fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631637827858,"sku":"9780822961352","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ceaf059f-3eda-43d8-a525-2ade5ca10312.jpg?v=1732778629","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bringing-the-shovel-down-9780822961352","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}