On April 8, Lerary Arts will host Ross Gay, partnership wh the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundatn, as the culmatg event MCL's 2021 Everybody Reads program. Get to know Gay a ltle better before the event!
Contents:
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- ROSS GAY FOUND 18 PEOPLE CALIFORNIA, INDIANA AND 19 OTHER STAT
- ROSS GAY SPEAKER & BOOKG INFORMATN
- GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY: INCG JOY (IN-PERSON)
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
- ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
ROSS GAY
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… * contact ross gay *
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). 00) / Number of pag 256 / Publitn date October 25, 2022 / ISBN 9781643753041Boston Globe’s Bt Books of 2022Shelf Awarens's Bt Adult Books of ’s Favore Books of 2022One of the San Francis Chronicle’s Favore Books of 2022Bt dbooks of 2022, BookPageOrr: Bookshop / IndieBoundFrom the publisher: In the geoly wrten and timely piec, prize-wng poet and thor Ross Gay nsirs the joy we ce when we re for each other, pecially durg life’s evable hardships. In that sneaky way Ross Gay has of lovgly disarmg you before gettg you to dwell rooms of your heart you’d left vant, Incg Joy s tular emotn as a wdow to sorrow and rage, to gifts and loss, to the tricky bs of beg alive.
Ewg, thor of Ghosts The Schoolyard, Electric Arch, and Marvel Comic’s Ironheart seri“In says that are lyril, pensive, and surprisg, poet Gay sheds light on all the plac joy n lurk […] Gay’s a remarkable wrer, and the llectn mak for a spellbdg medatn on the ways joy epens and grows the pany of grief, fear, and loss. ”— Publishers Weekly, bt book of 2022: nonfictn"Ross Gay is as sightful and lyril as an sayist as he is as a poet.
”— Chris Hedg, Pulzer Prize-wner and thor of War is Force that Giv Us Meang and Ameri: The Farewell Tour"Wrten over the urse of the panmic, Gay ponrs joy, fg ls as the absence of sorrow and rather as our rponse to . "— USA Today“A gift that’s meant to be shared […] spir to look beyond the miseri of our era to envisn a more welg future, Gay…offer[s] a ncept of joy ak to what Audre Lor nceptualized her say ‘Us of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. ”—Washgton Inpennt Review of Books“Ross Gay follows The Book of Delights wh another dazzlg llectn of lyric says.
ROSS GAY
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." * contact ross gay *
”— The Rump, November book club selectn“Stunng…Gay’s cursy is prent on every page and his precise yet playful prose sparkl…This ronant, vivid medatn shouldn’t be missed.
”— Publishers Weekly, starred review“Ross Gay's work throws off so much light, I've often wonred if was powered by a superr energy source.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
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”— John Freeman, founr of Freeman’s lerary magaze and edor of The Pengu Book of the Morn Amerin Short Story“In this masterful, raw, and stirrg llectn of says, Ross Gay has once aga axed his rears to awaken to our full humany. Ross Gay helps to unrstand that our joy and pa are fundamentally tangled up wh each other, and when we n ve sorrow close to share a proverbial cup of tea, that is when our ept joy is ced. Gay's pedagogy, explaed tail, dispts the systems that are basele ngent wh joy, as do his wrg, every sentence.
”— Poets & Wrers, ver feature“In a seri of says on such disparate them as skateboardg, grief, pickup basketball, ver songs, orchards, ath, and school, Gay expounds on his this, betifully stated the book’s troductn: joy, emergg om our shared human experience of sorrow, n provoke new solidari, leadg to love, to survival, to change that looks like shared flourishg. ”— Ploughshar"Gay is a treasure, and his latt offerg will light his fans as well as those new to his work.
ROSS GAY FOUND 18 PEOPLE CALIFORNIA, INDIANA AND 19 OTHER STAT
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”— BookPage, Most Anticipated Books of the Fall“Ross Gay has bee a sort of pied piper for joy. He studi his own life, and betifully wr both of s plexy—how one mt wele sorrow to tly feel joy’s expansive width—and of s simplicy…”— BOMB Magaze“Gay profoundly monstrat that not only uld he wre about joy, perhaps we all should be thkg about , pursug , creatg , cg our liv.
ROSS GAY SPEAKER & BOOKG INFORMATN
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So many thgs light Ross Gay: handma fy srv and loerg, the joy of rryg a heavy bag between two people, paw paws and even weeds.
This summer, I reread yet aga and found myself medatg on a sire Gay had voiced: wantg to be softer a world so ready to sharpen and to make hard. So, a recent terview, I talked to Gay about that sire, as well as the role of joy daily life, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love.
GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
Award-wng poet and thor Ross Gay discs his new say llectn "Incg Joy" at the Amerin Wrers Mm. * contact ross gay *
To which Ross Gay rponds word and ed, how n we not be joyful, pecially a moment like this? We practice tenrns and mercy part bee to unrstand that we are all sufferg is one qualy of what Ross Gay lls “adult joy.
ROSS GAY: INCG JOY (IN-PERSON)
Ross Gay - Ross Gay is the thor of Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award. * contact ross gay *
Ross Gay is a profsor of English at Indiana Universy Bloomgton and a wrer of poetry as well as says.
ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
Learn more about Ross Gay: Interview—Be Holdg, Gratu, Delights here. Read this article and download our Free Rourc at Nadia Colburn . % * contact ross gay *
Gay: Oh, my God, they’re jt like, “Well, why am I dog what they’re tellg me to do all the time? Gay: Yeah, my garn, and ’s funny, bee people, when they talk about the book, they notice the garn as a primary feature of —. Gay: For one, ’s jt fun to be a garn, for me, dreamg about what uld happen: that kd of mystil space, actually, of tryg to figure out what this thg that I do here uld be five years, that kd of strange dreamg space that is.
Tippett: We slightly shortened Ross Gay’s readg of “Loerg” here for time, but you n fd the whole say the uneded versn of the On Beg podst — available wherever you like to listen.
Also, fd this show aga our Poets and Poetry library at After a short break, more wh Ross Gay. Today reflectg on a practice of light wh the wrer Ross Gay, at the 2019 Wordplay Ftival Mneapolis.
ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
Ross Gay spent a year wrg daily says about thgs that light him. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Gay about some of the says clud his new book, The Book of Delights. * contact ross gay *
Gay: And I thk also knows, or to know, that what is galvanizg, as well, is what we love, and has a kd of belief that — and also believ the thg — the book self believ that ’s elbowg s neighbor and beg like, “Right? Gay: My iend Shayla and I were talkg about jt what might be a nice project to do the days, and so we cid to start this thg lled The Tenrns Project. Gay: “Among the most betiful thgs I’ve ever heard anyone say me om my stunt Bethany, talkg about her pedagogil aspiratns or ethos, how she wanted to be as a teacher, and what she wanted her classrooms to be.
Tippett: Ross Gay liv Bloomgton, Indiana, where he’s a profsor of English at Indiana Universy.
ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
~Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg, wner of the PEN Amerin Lerary Jean Ste Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.
”—RHINO“In turng an stance of athletic prows and grace to an expansive metaphoric visn, Gay pulls off a syntactil tour force. ”—Baltimore Art“Gay’s poem theoriz an ethics that is pably polil, and s ebullient gratu, fore and aft, reads not jt as an overflow of thankfulns but as a ncrete practice of the ethics Gay suggts. Ross Gay tak one fluid human gture and through expands the lungs of personal and munal history so they might hold all joy, terror, and vlence of this world.
In this terrible era, Ross Gay has wrten a book that breath this broken world and then returns to so we might breathe too. Ross Daniel Gay age 40Lived : Woodland, CA • El MacEro, CA • San Francis, CA • Santa Cz, CA • Santa Clara, CA • San Jose, CAWork: Murray Tech Law, Henigan Inc., Blu, Amerin Dream Realty, Crow's Nt, De Anza College, Nicky Gonzal Yuen, Google IncEdutn: Universy of California, Santa Cz, Cabrillo College, De Anza CollegeRoss Gay age 49Lived : Frenchtown, NJ • Bloomgton, IN • Madison, NJ • Martsville, NJ • Philalphia, PA • Jersey Cy, NJ • Langhorne, PA • Frerick, MD • Mount Vernon, NYRelated to: Gilbert Gay, Mathew GayRoss Calv Gay age 62Lived : Salem, OR • Santa Rosa, CAEdutn: Anne Gay, Calv Gay, Joyce GayRoss Warren Gay age 62Lived : Wyomg, MN • En Prairie, MN • Sandstone, MN • Glendale Heights, IL • Sprg Grove, IL • Mneapolis, MN • Cabery, IL • Acton, MARelated to: Ryan Gay, Alex Gay, Carly Gay, Na GayWork: Superr Communitns, Metropolan Airports Commissn, Midwt Permaculture, Advanced Integrated Technologi, Arnt Partners Ltd, Mar IncRoss Conner Gay age 41Lived : Falkner, MS • Bolivar, TN • Ripley, MSRelated to: Gerald Gay, Phyllis Gay, Jeri Gay, Llie Gay, Jerry GayWork: Harman County Schools.