Why You Should Read Ross Gay This Natnal Poetry Month

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WHY YOU SHOULD READ ROSS GAY THIS NATNAL POETRY MONTH

In praise of the joyful and very sprg-appropriate poetry of Ross Gay * ross gay burial *

Everyone n appreciate this changg of the seasons, but I don’t know that anyone n do more eloquently than Ross Gay. For those who aren’t naturally drawn to poetry, this is another pl of Gay’s work general – there are poems that burst forth wh so much joy. Whereas we often associate poetry as a nse, somber art form, Gay’s poems are not only load wh accsible language (please don’t mistake accsibily as lackg pth), but also praise the quotidian elements of life which we fd meang.

Nomated for a Natnal Book Award, this llectn mostly foc on Gay’s passn for garng, but exam many other subjects through this lens. In “Burial, ” Gay nails rears wh ndid, doleful l about the loss of his father, but they are juxtaposed by the unniable bety of the leral plum tre that bloom om the ash. In “Patience, ” a poem I recently memorized for a class, Gay appreciat the simplicy of takg a nap the grass surround by the garn he has helped blossom.

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Ross Gay is passnate about poetry, garng and basketball. “I gus you uld say that I thk all three thgs alter our notn of time," he said. * ross gay burial *

Perhaps most importantly, ’s easy to regnize Gay’s genue love for nature and language.

Gay artfully strips away any expectatns of pretentns and exclivy, and hurls rears to a stream of hont os and (five me) unabashed, grng l.

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Gay will provi you wh a great read that syncs perfectly wh the new season. Ross Gay is passnate about poetry, garng and basketball.

Gay jt moved back to Bloomgton, Indiana, after a ne-month fellowship at Harvard Universy. Gay says he wr poems about thgs that he has powerful qutns about, “qutns that a poem won’t answer. Gay is also workg on a book about nnectns between land and race.

Gay wrote a poem about Eric Garner, the Ain-Amerin man who died after New York Cy police officers put him a chokehold while tryg to arrt him. Gay says he was stck after readg his obuary The New York Tim. Gay’s poem “Burial” is about the ath of his father and about transformatn.

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