Ross Gay, Bon Iver shape the poetics of gratu new llaboratn

Contents:

• ROSS GAY & BON IVER – “CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU”
• ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN
• BON IVER, POET ROSS GAY TEAM UP TO LNCH JAGJAGUWAR 25TH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN
• ROSS GAY
• 218. CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU - ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN – THE STANFORD DAILY
• ROSS GAY

ROSS GAY & BON IVER – “CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU”

Dilate Your Heart om the poet Ross Gay. On the LP, Gay reads his poetry over unreleased mic om artists like Mary Lattimore, Angel Bat Dawid, Gia Margaret, and Sam Genl. The album’s first sgle is “Catalog Of Unabashed Gratu, ” a 14-mute llaboratn between Bon Iver and the poet Ross Gay.

Ross Gay is a poet and sayist who’s wrten a bunch of books.

Gay is the clear foc of the piece, not Jt Vernon. The mic forms a twkly backdrop, drawg your attentn to Gay’s joyo livery. “Friends, ” Ross Gay addrs listeners the first sends of “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu.

ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN

Set agast a shimmerg soundspe by Bon Iver, Gay performs the tular poem om his wily-ld 2015 book. In fact, the drone-filled mic behd “Catalog” echo Vernon’s ver of Van Etten’s “Love More, ” cementg Gay’s track as a te plement to Jagjaguwar’s well-curated lp of die mic. Gay reads a voice that is proclamatory, ronant and clear.

” However, rather than spectators to an onstage slam performance, Gay’s readg suat as visors his home, stg on “the rduroy uch [he has] put [] on.

After all, Gay tak to “the realt place” he knows: a muny garn Indiana.

BON IVER, POET ROSS GAY TEAM UP TO LNCH JAGJAGUWAR 25TH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN

Gay even produc “a bowl of blackberri om the garn, ” and jt as quickly as he njur that sweetns, he giv away to , sayg, “I picked them jt for you. Poets and creative wrers om the morn workshop era — which wrers are often enuraged to hone, cut and pare down language — will likely regnize that the tumblg excs and meanrgs of Gay’s language is different. That is not to say that Gay’s language is cluttered or imprecise.

The poem succeeds bee Gay’s tailed, expansive talog prov jt how much we have to appreciate the world, om the “znia, and gooseberry, dbeckia and pawpaw” flowers to the “baggie of dreadlocks [Gay] found a drawer / while washg and foldg the cloth of [his] murred iend. In rponse to Gay’s bloomg language, Bon Iver’s mic tak on a subtle yet powerful supportg role.

Vernon creat a soundspe wh two ma layers: the tremendo rattlg of background synths set agast clear ton that weave and out, acmodatg Gay’s words the way we might image a “river bends around the elephant’s / solemn tnk.

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Gay mov to the fal qutn of his poem, and the mic starts to fa.

Gay’s voice meets on the other si of that dream. ” I’d like to s that song next to Gay’s poem and image how Gay would answer that worry. After all, Gay acknowledg that life is “so much worse than we thk, ” and s end sooner than we ever expect.

Gay’s entire poem has been risg to give the answer he affirms, the end, so simply.

218. CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU - ROSS GAY

Bon Iver, Poet Ross Gay Team Up to Lnch Jagjaguwar 25th-Anniversary Celebratn. Indie label Jagjaguwar has announced a year-long 25th-anniversary celebratn that kicks off Thursday wh a llaboratn between the poet Ross Gay and Bon Iver. The rerd will boast four other piec bg Gay’s poetry wh new mic.

Ross Gay. 99) Opaque Green Vyl / Catalog Number JAG401lp-C1 / Release Date April 9, 2019Purchase here om The Secretly StoreFrom the label: The muny orchard that poet Ross Gay helped build Bloomgton is a physil reprentatn of all he puts to his wrg.

‘Dilate Your Heart’ ptur Ross Gay’s poems and lets that orchard to their l, wh ep and lovg posns om Jagjaguwar artists and artists we’ve adored for years wh this ever-dilatg heart of ours.

ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN – THE STANFORD DAILY

“Dilate Your Heart” do not stem om any one of Gay’s poems. But the oft-ed Jagjaguwar mantra certaly ow a psychic bt to their passag — a bt to Ross Gay as a member of this muny and as an artist livg here Bloomgton, Ind., where Jagjaguwar is based.

The sprawlg, heartbreakg and relentlsly thankful “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu” is given a geo, slowly creepg bed of v by Bon Iver, as Gay's unadorned voic speaks a lifetim of Thank You’s. On “Burial, ” harpist and poser Mary Lattimore’s lunar landspe follows Gay’s voice to space, tellg of our endls energy exchange wh nature.

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Chigo’s Angel Bat Dawid danc wh the eic, joyo scene Gay leads through on “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian, ” which a group of Philalphia strangers scramble together to harvt the u of the tular urban fig tree. Songwrer Gia Margaret provis a mystil, amntic environment for Gay’s “Poem To My Child If Ever You Shall Be, ” a love letter to an imaged future child, treatg Gay's voice like a msage a bottle to a far off ia ma only of love and potential. Sam Genl, a secret weapon llaborator, affects Gay’s voice on “Sorrow Is Not My Name” to somethg glassy and almost sgsongy.

Gay be a man outsi time, focg on the treasure of life’s every day stead of fixatg on s faly, the feel of the mic almost wtern, ridg to the wd then disappearg. Throughout, Gay rec his poems wh bright alivens, his voice as warm and easy when he speaks about ath as when he speaks about mercy, or love. PromptRead or listen to “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu” by Ross Gay.