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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 *
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. 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
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.