Incg joy: Poet Ross Gay on garng, grief, and basketball | KCRW

Contents:

• ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW
• ROSS GAY
• INCG JOY: POET ROSS GAY ON GARNG, GRIEF, AND BASKETBALL
• POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW
• ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ IS A GIFT THAT’S MEANT TO BE SHARED
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'

ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW

Ross Gay on cg joy while dg wh sorrow. In his latt llectn of says, Incg Joy, poet Ross Gay rensirs the breadth of joy, argug that n be found – and even strengthened – life's harst moments, when we mt rely on one another.

ROSS GAY

This week, host Brtany Le ss down wh Gay to discs the plexy of joy, the bety of grace and creatg meang life.

Poet Ross Gay explor the qutns – What c joy?

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INCG JOY: POET ROSS GAY ON GARNG, GRIEF, AND BASKETBALL

And the are jt a few of endls exampl, Gay tells CNN. CNN spoke wh Gay prr to his new book’s release.

00) / Number of pag 256 / Publitn date October 25, 2022 / ISBN 9781643753041Boston Globe’s Bt Books of 2022Shelf Awarens's Bt Adult Books of ’s Favore Books of 2022One of the San Francis Chronicle’s Favore Books of 2022Bt dbooks of 2022, BookPageOrr: Bookshop / IndieBoundFrom the publisher: In the geoly wrten and timely piec, prize-wng poet and thor Ross Gay nsirs the joy we ce when we re for each other, pecially durg life’s evable hardships. Ross Gay will break your heart. In that sneaky way Ross Gay has of lovgly disarmg you before gettg you to dwell rooms of your heart you’d left vant, Incg Joy  s tular emotn as a wdow to sorrow and rage, to gifts and loss, to the tricky bs of beg alive.

Ewg, thor of Ghosts The Schoolyard, Electric Arch, and Marvel Comic’s Ironheart seri“In says that are lyril, pensive, and surprisg, poet Gay sheds light on all the plac joy n lurk […] Gay’s a remarkable wrer, and the llectn mak for a spellbdg medatn on the ways joy epens and grows the pany of grief, fear, and loss.

POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW

”— Publishers Weekly, bt book of 2022: nonfictn"Ross Gay is as sightful and lyril as an sayist as he is as a poet. ”— Chris Hedg, Pulzer Prize-wner and thor of War is Force that Giv Us Meang and Ameri: The Farewell Tour"Wrten over the urse of the panmic, Gay ponrs joy, fg ls as the absence of sorrow and rather as our rponse to . "— USA Today“A gift that’s meant to be shared […] spir to look beyond the miseri of our era to envisn a more welg future, Gay…offer[s] a ncept of joy ak to what Audre Lor nceptualized her say ‘Us of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.

”—Tricycle: The Buddhist Review // Review“What Gay livers is no small gift.

”—Washgton Inpennt Review of Books“Ross Gay follows The Book of Delights wh another dazzlg llectn of lyric says. Gay exus a generosy of spir. ”— The Rump, November book club selectn“Stunng…Gay’s cursy is prent on every page and his precise yet playful prose sparkl…This ronant, vivid medatn shouldn’t be missed.

ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ IS A GIFT THAT’S MEANT TO BE SHARED

”— Publishers Weekly, starred review“Ross Gay's work throws off so much light, I've often wonred if was powered by a superr energy source. ”— John Freeman, founr of Freeman’s lerary magaze and edor of The Pengu Book of the Morn Amerin Short Story“In this masterful, raw, and stirrg llectn of says, Ross Gay has once aga axed his rears to awaken to our full humany.

Ross Gay helps to unrstand that our joy and pa are fundamentally tangled up wh each other, and when we n ve sorrow close to share a proverbial cup of tea, that is when our ept joy is ced.

”— BookPage"Gay's poetilly fluenced prose is nothg short of joyful. Gay's pedagogy, explaed tail, dispts the systems that are basele ngent wh joy, as do his wrg, every sentence. ”— Poets & Wrers, ver feature“In a seri of says on such disparate them as skateboardg, grief, pickup basketball, ver songs, orchards, ath, and school, Gay expounds on his this, betifully stated the book’s troductn: joy, emergg om our shared human experience of sorrow, n provoke new solidari, leadg to love, to survival, to change that looks like shared flourishg.

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

”— Ploughshar"Gay is a treasure, and his latt offerg will light his fans as well as those new to his work. "— Kirk Reviews“Ross Gay has a sgle-md foc: makg the world a better place.

”— BookPage, Most Anticipated Books of the Fall“Ross Gay has bee a sort of pied piper for joy. He studi his own life, and betifully wr both of s plexy—how one mt wele sorrow to tly feel joy’s expansive width—and of s simplicy…”— BOMB Magaze“Gay profoundly monstrat that not only uld he wre about joy, perhaps we all should be thkg about , pursug , creatg , cg our liv. In his latt llectn of says and poems, “Incg Joy, ” thor Ross Gay ponrs the kds of experienc that have touched his life and brought him joy.

Jonathan Bastian talks wh Gay about his sights on joy and why joy beme the topic for quiry his latt llectn of says and poems. From pickup basketball gam and skateboardg to fightg jtice and rg for his dyg father, Gay ponrs the sourc of joy his life and explas the many ways which joy and sorrow are are eply tertwed. “My hunch is that joy emerg om our mon sorrow, which do not necsarily mean we have the same sorrows, but that we mon sorrow might draw together, ” Gay wr his book’s troductn.