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ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
I am Nadia Colburn, and I am here today wh Ross Gay. Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, and wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross Gay: Thank you, ’s good to be wh you too.
Ross Gay: That’s such a good qutn. Ross Gay: All of .
Ross Gay: Jt north of Philalphia. Ross Gay: Well, that is very much my poetic and ethil and spirual practice.
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Ross Gay: That’s here. Ross Gay: I know . Ross Gay: I don’t know that a kid would say this, but ’s sort of like this has been given to me, like the sun g through through the tre or the sun filterg through that squirrel hangg on that oak tree, through the qutn mark of that squirrels tail, the sun is actually filtered, that has been given to me.
Ross Gay: They’re notg all of this stuff that is so often as an adult, we don’t notice.
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Ross Gay: The next le is a few years before his father went down.
Ross Gay: Yeah, that’s good. Ross Gay: I’ll read the last three stanzas. Ross Gay: For sure.