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…
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Ross Gay$16. Meet the AuthorROSS GAY was born Youngstown, Oh and grew up outsi of Philalphia.
Cric ReviewsWhat Ross Gay se, what he sgs about, is a crippled woman takg a walk her wheel-chair through the agency of the poet’s strong hands; or two brothers embracg the ath chamber, and the untranslatable song between them; or revery om pa alcg wh the begng of sprg; or the glor sexy visn of an ankle, or a midriff; or the blue whale’s ep-sea love scream; or football season late October. Whether he’s talkg about the pa of slavery or a child beg beaten up on a playground, Ross Gay’s Agast Which suggts poetry as the way by which we might unrstand “birth’s phantom limb.
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Ross Gay is a terrific poet of enormo energi and gifts whose poems both “terrify and fort, ” as Berryman put .