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Contents:

• ROSS GAY: INCG JOY
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ IS A GIFT THAT’S MEANT TO BE SHARED
• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
• ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ REIMAG HOW WE FD LIFE’S GREATT HAPPS
• ROSS GAY: INCG JOY (IN-PERSON)
• INCG JOY WH ROSS GAY (TRANSCRIPT)
• ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”

ROSS GAY: INCG JOY

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Take ActnHear more om Ross Gay this terview, "We Belong to Each Other.

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.

Ross Gay will break your heart. 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.

ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ IS A GIFT THAT’S MEANT TO BE SHARED

”— 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 .

ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

"— 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. ”—Tricycle: The Buddhist Review // Review“What Gay livers is no small gift. ”—Washgton Inpennt Review of Books“Ross Gay follows The Book of Delights wh another dazzlg llectn of lyric says.

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ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ REIMAG HOW WE FD LIFE’S GREATT HAPPS

”— 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.

”— 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.

”— BookPage"Gay's poetilly fluenced prose is nothg short of joyful. 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.

ROSS GAY: INCG JOY (IN-PERSON)

”— Ploughshar"Gay is a treasure, and his latt offerg will light his fans as well as those new to his work. "— Kirk Reviews“Ross Gay has a sgle-md foc: makg the world a better place. ”— BookPage, Most Anticipated Books of the Fall“Ross Gay has bee a sort of pied piper for joy.

INCG JOY WH ROSS GAY (TRANSCRIPT)

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 on cg joy while dg wh sorrow. In his latt llectn of says, Incg Joy, poet Ross Gay rensirs the breadth of joy, argug that n be found – and even strengthened – life's harst moments, when we mt rely on one another.

ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”

This week, host Brtany Le ss down wh Gay to discs the plexy of joy, the bety of grace and creatg meang life. I began readg “Incg Joy” a profound state of, I rpected s thor, Ross Gay, for the whimsy, disciple and fiance that produced his prr say and poetry llectns, “The Book of Delights” and “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, ” which won a 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award.

Wh “Incg Joy, ” which spir to look beyond the miseri of our era to envisn a more welg future, Gay vlts over the possibily of treacle to offer a ncept of joy ak to what Audre Lor nceptualized her say “Us of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, ” which she wrote, “The sharg of joy, whether physil, emotnal, psychic, or tellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which n be the basis for unrstandg much of what is not shared between them, and lsens the threat of their difference.

Rather, as Gay wr, “What if joy is not only entangled wh pa, or sufferg, or sorrow, but is also what emerg om how we re for each other through those thgs? ”As direct as he n be when makg a pot he don’t want rears to miss, Gay prefers digrsns that are, and of themselv, dialectil enchantments. An cement is what Gay means to liver, and he do.