Poet and sayist Ross Gay will discs his works St. Pl at the Fzgerald Theater on Nov. 2.
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WRER ROSS GAY'S NEW BOOK IS ABOUT FDG JOY THE FACE OF LOSS
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Ross Gay is terted joy.Ross Gay wants to unrstand joy.Ross Gay is cur about joy.Ross Gay studi joy.Somethg like that.~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. After Ross Gay's father was diagnosed wh stage IV liver ncer, Gay, while rg for his dad, ma a surprisg and gratifyg disvery. "The reason I got that close to him was bee he was dyg, but the joy gave me to fd out that he had eckl was a kd of grace, " Gay said.
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A prolific poet and sayist, Gay wr about his father "Through My Tears I Saw, " one of 14 says his new llectn, "Incg Joy. An avid garner and oime skateboarr who now teach English at Indiana Universy, Gay draws om his everyday life tendg the soil, om playg pickup basketball and om his memori, weavg words that dazzle and also take off a myriad of directns. Joy, as Gay se , is that reflectn, misunrstood though may be.
"Joy is the light that om as we rry each other through our sorrows — and no one gets out of this life whout sorrow, " Gay said. In many ways, "Incg Joy" is part of a larger qut that Gay took up years ago wh other, self-exprsive tl, namely the poetry book, "Catalog of Unabashed Gratu" and the say llectn, "The Book of Delights. Born Youngstown, Oh, Gay grew up Philalphia, a jock.
Gay may chew the word evangelist — he has his own spirual beliefs — but he has been a proselytizer for joy, and he wants to make all believers s virtu.