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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… * ross gay against which *
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ROSS GAY
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.
Ross Gay is a terrific poet of enormo energi and gifts whose poems both “terrify and fort, ” as Berryman put . 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 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). Ross Gay is the thor of three books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.