Wrer Ross Gay's new book is about fdg joy the face of loss

Contents:

• ROSS GAY: HAVE I EVEN TOLD YOU YET ABOUT THE COURTS I’VE LOVED?
• POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
• WRER ROSS GAY'S NEW BOOK IS ABOUT FDG JOY THE FACE OF LOSS
• INCG JOY: POET ROSS GAY ON GARNG, GRIEF, AND BASKETBALL
• AKIRA ROSS' PARTNER, FATHER SAY SHE WAS KILLED BY STRANGER CEDAR PARK BEE SHE WAS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'
• ROSS GAY

ROSS GAY: HAVE I EVEN TOLD YOU YET ABOUT THE COURTS I’VE LOVED?

Be Holdg by Ross Gay is available via Universy of Ptsburgh Prs. Poet Ross Gay explor the qutns – What c joy? Wrten over the urse of the panmic, Gay ponrs joy, fg ls as the absence of sorrow and rather as our rponse to .

Jt look at the way the garners share their extra vegetabl, Gay not.

POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW

And the are jt a few of endls exampl, Gay tells CNN. CNN spoke wh Gay prr to his new book’s release.

I am Nadia Colburn, and I am here today wh Ross Gay. Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, and wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross Gay: Thank you, ’s good to be wh you too.

Ross Gay: That’s such a good qutn.

HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'

Ross Gay: All of .

ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

Ross Gay: Jt north of Philalphia. Ross Gay: Well, that is very much my poetic and ethil and spirual practice. Ross Gay: That’s here.

Ross Gay: I know . Ross Gay: I don’t know that a kid would say this, but ’s sort of like this has been given to me, like the sun g through through the tre or the sun filterg through that squirrel hangg on that oak tree, through the qutn mark of that squirrels tail, the sun is actually filtered, that has been given to me.

Ross Gay: They’re notg all of this stuff that is so often as an adult, we don’t notice. Ross Gay: The next le is a few years before his father went down.

WRER ROSS GAY'S NEW BOOK IS ABOUT FDG JOY THE FACE OF LOSS

Ross Gay: Yeah, that’s good.

Ross Gay: I’ll read the last three stanzas. Ross Gay: For sure.

Ross Gay: That’s . Ross Gay: I thk some of the qutns that this book rais are those qutns. Ross Gay: Thank you for noticg that.

INCG JOY: POET ROSS GAY ON GARNG, GRIEF, AND BASKETBALL

Ross Gay: It’s like many thgs. Ross Gay: Aretha Frankl’s “Amazg Grace”.

AKIRA ROSS' PARTNER, FATHER SAY SHE WAS KILLED BY STRANGER CEDAR PARK BEE SHE WAS GAY

But I’ve jt been listeng to that, that album so much, and ’s jt like self is a kd of set of rabb hol bee she vers Marv Gaye holy home, which is kd of phed me back over to what’s gog on that album, but that rerd and two songs particular, “Mary Don’t You Weep” and “Never Grow Old”… I’ll put those on and I’ll do my work out. Ross Gay: I thk I do actually… It is, sometim ’s a practice where I’m sort of wrg 30 mut every day, but I do have a practice of acknowledgement, I thk jt sort of steadily. Ross Gay: My partner and I are the often recipients and often givers of thgs we grow thgs, we uld ok, so that practicg sharg and beg the recipient of other people’s sire and tert to share as well.

Ross Gay: That’s like a practice too… When someone giv you somethg, to not be like, Oh, here’s somethg too, here’s somethg back. Ross Gay: We’re practicg on how to take re of each other.

Ross Gay: My pleasure, my pleasure. After Ross Gay's father was diagnosed wh stage IV liver ncer, Gay, while rg for his dad, ma a surprisg and gratifyg disvery. "The reason I got that close to him was bee he was dyg, but the joy gave me to fd out that he had eckl was a kd of grace, " Gay said.

ROSS GAY

A prolific poet and sayist, Gay wr about his father "Through My Tears I Saw, " one of 14 says his new llectn, "Incg Joy. An avid garner and oime skateboarr who now teach English at Indiana Universy, Gay draws om his everyday life tendg the soil, om playg pickup basketball and om his memori, weavg words that dazzle and also take off a myriad of directns.

Joy, as Gay se , is that reflectn, misunrstood though may be.

ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'

"Joy is the light that om as we rry each other through our sorrows — and no one gets out of this life whout sorrow, " Gay said. In many ways, "Incg Joy" is part of a larger qut that Gay took up years ago wh other, self-exprsive tl, namely the poetry book, "Catalog of Unabashed Gratu" and the say llectn, "The Book of Delights. Born Youngstown, Oh, Gay grew up Philalphia, a jock.

Gay may chew the word evangelist — he has his own spirual beliefs — but he has been a proselytizer for joy, and he wants to make all believers s virtu. "I was lucky enough to meet his need, which also met a need of me, " Gay said.

Gay also wants to see joy as a major subject servg of rigoro cril quiry. "The notn that is not ser and worthy of study is feeble and imag some kd of quote-unquote pure life whout pa and whout sorrow, " Gay said.

ROSS GAY

The query is off-base, Gay said, but he's always happy to tackle . Gay is not alone his qut.

Gay am differently. "He talks about the practice of sg wh tears your ey, " Gay said. Gay had wrten about his father his first book, the 2006 poetry llectn "Agast Which.