In a recent episo of Life As It Is, poet Ross Gay discs why he believ that joy is a radil and necsary act.
Contents:
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
- POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
- POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW
- AN INTERVIEW WH ROSS GAY
- BETWEEN THE COVERS ROSS GAY INTERVIEW
ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
Learn more about Ross Gay: Interview—Be Holdg, Gratu, Delights here. Read this article and download our Free Rourc at Nadia Colburn . % * ross gay interview *
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. Ross Gay: All of . 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.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
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." * ross gay interview *
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.
Ross Gay: Yeah, that’s good.
ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
In his first say llectn sce 'The Book of Delights,' Ross Gay explor how joy is more plited than we thk—and more attaable. * ross gay interview *
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.
POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
In the last two years, seems like everyone has been searchg for joy. Now, poet Ross Gay is explorg qutns around that subject his new book "Incg Joy," a llectn of says released Tuday. * ross gay interview *
Ross Gay: Thank you for noticg that. Ross Gay: It’s like many thgs. Ross Gay: Aretha Frankl’s “Amazg Grace”.
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.
POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW
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Ross Gay: We’re practicg on how to take re of each other. Ross Gay: My pleasure, my pleasure.
AN INTERVIEW WH ROSS GAY
To which Ross Gay rponds word and ed, how n we not be joyful, pecially a moment like this? We practice tenrns and mercy part bee to unrstand that we are all sufferg is one qualy of what Ross Gay lls “adult joy.
Ross Gay: It is joy by which the labor that will make the life that I want, possible. Ross Gay is a profsor of English at Indiana Universy Bloomgton and a wrer of poetry as well as says. Gay: It’s sort of amazg to me.
Gay: [lghs] Yeah, totally. Gay: Right, yeah.
BETWEEN THE COVERS ROSS GAY INTERVIEW
Gay: That’s a really good qutn.
Gay: But ’s amazg, right?