Ross Gay: Interview—Be Holdg, Gratu, Delights | Nadia Colburn

Contents:

• ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
• ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
• POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
• THE PEOPLE'S POETRY ARCHIVE PRENTS, A POETRY READG WH ROSS GAY

ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW

Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay. 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. 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 on cg joy while dg wh sorrow.

ROSS GAY

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”Gay, a 48-year-old poet and profsor at Indiana Universy, has ma a reer of explorg the wonr to be found our everyday liv, notably his btsellg 2019 say llectn, The Book of Delights.

ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

”Book ver of “Incg Joy” by Ross Gay. Courty of Ross GayGQ: A word that up aga and aga your work is the word practice.

Ross Gay: I started to thk about that word when I was dog The Book of Delights. Ross Gay is terted Gay wants to unrstand Gay is cur about Gay studi joy. ~Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg, wner of the PEN Amerin Lerary Jean Ste Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.

ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

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.

POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW

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. Ross Gay: I know .

THE PEOPLE'S POETRY ARCHIVE PRENTS, A POETRY READG WH ROSS GAY

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: I’ll read the last three stanzas.