On the Co Swch podst, Ross Gay reflects on his 2019 llectn The Book of Delights, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love."
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. 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: FDG JOY THE PROCS
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.
ROSS GAY
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). And that is what poet Ross Gay do ll them as he picks up, a century and a civilizatnal failure later, where Hse left off wh The Book of Delights (public library) — his yearlong experiment learng to notice, amid a world that so readily giv reasons to spair, the daily wellsprgs of light, or what Wenll Berry, his geo se for light as a untercultural force of ristance, lled the elemental pleasur “to which a man had to be acutely and tritely attentive, or he uld not have them at all.