Ross Gay, A Garner's Poet - The Cultivated Life

ross gay plum tree

On the Co Swch podst, Ross Gay reflects on his 2019 llectn The Book of Delights, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love."

Contents:

ROSS GAY

Wrers and garners Ross Gay and Ts Taylor and about what garns and poetry n brg — cludg the remr to breathe and nourish the body and soul. * ross gay plum tree *

Wrers and garners Ross Gay and Ts Taylor and about what garns and poetry n brg — cludg the remr to breathe and nourish the body and soul.

Let's slow down for a GAY: I'm Ross TAYLOR: I'm Ts Taylor. GAY: It's dog real good, you know. GAY: That's .

ROSS GAY’S ‘UNABASHED GRATU’ SURG WH LIFE

Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. He earned a BA om Lafayette College, an MFA Poetry om Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD English om… * ross gay plum tree *

GAY: Oh, yeah, So I jt fished, as you know, edg this anthology of new garng poems that's gog to e out next year.

GAY: Yeah. GAY: I have a poem for you. Poets and garners Ross Gay and Ts Taylor.

Ross Gay.

POEM OF THE DAY: ROSS GAY

Poet and profsor Ross Gay reads om 'talog of unabashed gratu,' wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award. * ross gay plum tree *

Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. Gay is the -thor, wh Aimee Nezhumatathil, of the chapbook Lace and Pyre: Letters om Two Garns (2014), and wh Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., River (2014). On a sprg night Bloomgton, Indiana, Ross Gay is plantg young lettuc.

Gay’s iend Don is eatg sweet potato biscus out of the pan as they talk the kchen, listeng to Na Simone and walkg arm arm down the block and past the graveyard, not long before he was murred. In os to buttong and unbuttong his shirt and drkg water om his hands, Gay is talkg about love and the loss of people he lov, and the anger and fear and tiredns he feels as a black man this untry. Gay chose the tle of the book to hold open thankfulns.

HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'

* ross gay plum tree *

Michael Dumanis, the director of poetry at Benngton and the curator of this sprg’s poetry seri, first fell to Gay’s work years ago a bookstore Cleveland, Oh. He took Gay’s first book, Agast Which, off the shelf and stood amazed. He remembers llg a close iend who might have met Gay and sayg tell me about him — I n’t believe the poems I’m readg.

As he talks wh his class, Dumanis hears anticipatn for Gay’s vis, and his name rurfac nversatns. Williams has tght Gay’s work. Dumanis felt wh wonr Sorrow Is Not my Name, Gay’s send book, Brgg the Shovel Down, as the poem nam some of the world’s thoands of “naturally occurrg sweet thgs.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ ROSS GAY THIS NATNAL POETRY MONTH

In praise of the joyful and very sprg-appropriate poetry of Ross Gay * ross gay plum tree *

Gay has recently fished his newt project: A Book of Delights. As he imag the book, Gay turns over the material reali and the psychic and spirual pths of land … enomic value, stabily, a place to belong.

ROSS GAY: SGG ABOUT PLANTS AND PEOPLE

“What a lucky job to give nam to u, ” Gay said, savorg some om his talog, Ashmead’s kernel, moonglow. —om Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, Ptsburgh Poetry Seri (2015).

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* ROSS GAY PLUM TREE

'The Book Of Delights': How Ross Gay Fds Joy In Small Thgs : Co Swch : NPR .

TOP