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Contents:
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
- ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
ROSS GAY
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Ross Gay is terted Gay wants to unrstand Gay is cur about Gay studi joy. ~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.
ROSS GAY
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95) / Number of pag 288 / Publitn date Febary 12, 2019 / ISBN 9781616207922Purchase: Algonqu / IndieBound / Bookshop / Powell'sFrom the Publisher: The New York Tim btsellg book of says celebratg ordary lights the world around by one of Ameri's most origal and observant wrers, award-wng poet Ross Gay. The first nonfictn book om award-wng poet Ross Gay is a rerd of the small joys we often overlook our by liv.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
In the last two years, seems like everyone has been searchg for joy. Now, poet Ross Gay is explorg qutns around that subject his new book "Incg Joy," a llectn of says released Tuday. * ross gay books *
Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophil lights: a iend’s unabashed e of air quot, cradlg a tomato seedlg aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people a room. But Gay never dismiss the plexi, even the terrors, of livg Ameri as a black man or the elogil and psychic vlence of our nsumer culture or the loss of those he lov.
More than anythg else, though, Gay celebrat the bety of the natural world–his garn, the flowers peekg out of the siwalk, the hypnotic movements of a prayg mantis.
The remarkable piec serve as a powerful and necsary remr that we n, and should, stake out a space our liv for & Reviews“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonr at every turn, bolsterg my belief the untls small miracl that surround . Gay, an award-wng poet, knows the value of formal nstrat: his experienc of ‘light, ’ rerd daily for a year, vary wily but yield revealg patterns through sights about everythg om nature and the body to race and masculy. ’” —The New Yorker“Ross Gay’s poems are ltle celebratns of joy, and this book of mi-says—each centerg around a particular 'light, ’ om sleepg your cloth to plantg tomato seedlgs to the nod of greetg between the only two black people a room—is a pure balm for your soul.
POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
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” —Celte Ng for “You’ll fd that the lights of Gay’s world illumate the lights of yours, that his wonr is ntag and has ed you to epen your own.
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. * ross gay books *
” —Today“Ross Gay is able to e as ltle language as possible to populate a world where his memori are your memori, tertwed, reachg out of the pag. It’s hard to read Gay and not to be won over.
This is an entire book of such glimmers, which Ross Gay notic ty moments life and nature, so that we too may light them. In a climate of ser thoughts about ser subjects, Ross Gay tly do light, brgg more poetry than ual to an say llectn that challeng the nventns of the form. Some of Gay’s says are a mere paragraph, others are longer, but they are all about aspects of life worth celebratg.