The Book of Delights: Poet and Garner Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment Willful Gladns – The Margalian

Contents:

• POET ROSS GAY ON THE BODY AS AN INSTMENT OF THOUGHT AND THE DELIGHTS OF WRG BY HAND
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS
• ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS
• ROSS GAY

POET ROSS GAY ON THE BODY AS AN INSTMENT OF THOUGHT AND THE DELIGHTS OF WRG BY HAND

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

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THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS

So many thgs light Ross Gay: handma fy srv and loerg, the joy of rryg a heavy bag between two people, paw paws and even weeds.

ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS

This summer, I reread yet aga and found myself medatg on a sire Gay had voiced: wantg to be softer a world so ready to sharpen and to make hard.

ROSS GAY

So, a recent terview, I talked to Gay about that sire, as well as the role of joy daily life, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love. Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. Gay is the -thor, wh Aimee Nezhumatathil, of the chapbook Lace and Pyre: Letters om Two Garns (2014), and wh Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., River (2014).