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ROSS GAY
“Be Holdg” om the book Be Holdg, by Ross Gay, © 2020. Through a kd of lyric rearch, or lyric medatn, Ross Gay nnects Dr. And how that reachg might be somethg like & Reviews“The brilliant fourth book om Gay...
”— Publishers Weekly starred review“Ross Gay’s work is not only celebratory.
WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY
”—RHINO“In turng an stance of athletic prows and grace to an expansive metaphoric visn, Gay pulls off a syntactil tour force. ”—Baltimore Art“Gay’s poem theoriz an ethics that is pably polil, and s ebullient gratu, fore and aft, reads not jt as an overflow of thankfulns but as a ncrete practice of the ethics Gay suggts. Ross Gay tak one fluid human gture and through expands the lungs of personal and munal history so they might hold all joy, terror, and vlence of this world.
THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS BY ROSS
In this terrible era, Ross Gay has wrten a book that breath this broken world and then returns to so we might breathe too. Ross Gay has once aga proven himself one of our greatt poets. Aga and aga, the betiful note he holds and hands, that’s what Ross Gay be sayg.
Rarely do a book-length poem hold s rear as tenrly and timately as Ross Gay’s Be Holdg (2020) held me.