Golden Shovel
A poetic form invented by Terrance-Hayes, where the end of each line is a quote or line.
In Hayes’ The Golden Shovel, the end of each line quotes Gwendolyn Brooks’ We Real Cool in full.
It’s a fun form to play around in and a challenge as you have to bend your own lines into the existing words. It’s a way to Transform-Existing-Work and create something new that comments on the original.
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Transform Existing Work
One way to create new work is take something someone else has created and change it in some way. Crucially,...