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THE SUNDAY POEM: “SORROW IS NOT MY NAME” BY ROSS GAY
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Copyright © 2011 by Ross Gay. Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. Gay is an edor wh the chapbook prs Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Prs and is a foundg edor, wh Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the onle sports magaze Some Call Ball.
Overview“Sorrow Is Not My Name” is a 23-le, heavily enjambed ee verse poem by Ross Gay.
"SORROW IS NOT MY NAME", BY ROSS GAY
” Both poems exame them of ath and mortaly, ultimately advotg for life and hope, albe different ways; Gay’s poem echo Brooks’s fal le, “Remember, green’s your lor. Examg the myriad “naturally occurrg sweet thgs” (Le 13) on the pla while also acknowledgg the prence of ath, Gay prents a plited portra of joy, ultimately argug that only by acknowledgg, unrstandg, and acceptg the possibily (and evabily) of ath n the speaker, and th the rear, beg to appreciate the overwhelmg bety available the Gay was born Youngstown, Oh 1974 to a Black father and a whe mother.
ROSS GAY
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