Ross Gay: Fdg joy the procs - The Wrer

Contents:

• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
• ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS
• BETWEEN THE COVERS ROSS GAY INTERVIEW
• ROSS GAY '96 RETURNS TO HELP STUNTS
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• ROSS GAY
• DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

There’s an say Ross Gay’s new llectn, Incg Joy, that begs wh a discsn of his favore sports book, John Edgar Wiman’s Hoop Roots, a memoir told through the thor’s lifelong relatnship wh basketball. Over the next eleven pag, Gay, a longtime hoop lover himself, offers a medatn on the bety of the pickup game, and how a good urt is a microsm of mocracy.

ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS

”Gay, a 48-year-old poet and profsor at Indiana Universy, has ma a reer of explorg the wonr to be found our everyday liv, notably his btsellg 2019 say llectn, The Book of Delights. ”Book ver of “Incg Joy” by Ross Gay. Courty of Ross GayGQ: A word that up aga and aga your work is the word practice.

Ross Gay: I started to thk about that word when I was dog The Book of Delights.

BETWEEN THE COVERS ROSS GAY INTERVIEW

I began readg “Incg Joy” a profound state of doubt.Y, I rpected s thor, Ross Gay, for the whimsy, disciple and fiance that produced his prr say and poetry llectns, “The Book of Delights” and “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu,” which won a 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award. It happens all the time, and who n blame those who succumb to the allure of the market, given the hospable amic settgs which many wrers earn their livg as teachg faculty?Wh “Incg Joy,” which spir to look beyond the miseri of our era to envisn a more welg future, Gay vlts over the possibily of treacle to offer a ncept of joy ak to what Audre Lor nceptualized her say “Us of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” which she wrote, “The sharg of joy, whether physil, emotnal, psychic, or tellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which n be the basis for unrstandg much of what is not shared between them, and lsens the threat of their difference.”This is not to say that joy eras difference, nor that the ferocy of muny feelg should be ls aggrsive a natn that seeks to eradite that which do not nform to the immoral mands of palism. Rather, as Gay wr, “What if joy is not only entangled wh pa, or sufferg, or sorrow, but is also what emerg om how we re for each other through those thgs?”As direct as he n be when makg a pot he don’t want rears to miss, Gay prefers digrsns that are, and of themselv, dialectil enchantments.

An cement is what Gay means to liver, and he do. Whether wrg about droppg to a hang, durg which two iends give each other the kd of attentn that Simone Weil lled the purt of generosi, or about gam of pickup, or about the pernic racism that plagu our untry, or about the stultifyg stctur of higher tn, Gay prov that “real learng is unpredictable, improvisatory, and by fn, nfoundg.

ROSS GAY '96 RETURNS TO HELP STUNTS

By fn, if the learng is real, the out are unfathomable.”Gay’s radil openns to possibily leads to subtle discernments of his errors of judgment, such as dismissg the humany of his ad father to avoid the hurt of his own wound feelgs. The ept joys are those we share.Kristen Millar Young is a journalist, sayist and thor of the novel “Subductn.”Incg JoyEssaysBy Ross GayAlgonqu.

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

Essayist and poet Ross Gay qutns thgs.

A Ross Gay work has a distctive pot of view. Gay skillfully kns crass curs to $60-SAT verbs. Gay has wrten four books and -wrten two chapbooks.

ROSS GAY

Gay began the project on his 42nd birthday.

DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS

Gay has been travelg the untry this year givg readgs om the new book.

I’m so exced for today’s episo wh Ross Gay, as Ross has been an important poet for me, and also has felt like such a prence recently on the show.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

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David Naimon: Today’s gut is poet, sayist, athlete, and garner, Ross Gay.

Gay earned his MFA Poetry om Sarah Lawrence, his Ph. A football player as an unrgraduate at Lafayette College, Ross Gay has ached basketball and was a foundg edor of the onle sports magaze, Some Call It Ball’.