The Book of Delights by Ross Gay | NYU Skirball Center

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS BY ROSS GAY

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Bim talks to poet Ross Gay, whose book spired today’s show, about the disciple and rigor of seekg and holdg onto light. He's lled Ross Gay, and he's wrten a book where he basilly keeps track of the thgs that light him.

Enter Ross Gay, the poet I was talkg about a moment ago. Here's Ross readg an excerpt of Delight number 80 om the book, "Tomato Onboard, " his livg room Gay What you don't know until you rry a tomato seedlg through the airport and onto a plane, is that rryg a tomato seedlg through the airport and onto a plane will make people se at you, almost like you're rryg a baby. Ross was gettg to reasss his environment, and nsir through a new lens-- a lightful Gay I was learng as I was gog.

Bee light don't jt arrive, you need to actively go lookg for Gay Beg a state of tryg to tra your cursy, and tryg to tra this sense of not knowg. Ross Gay [LAUGHS] No. Ross Gay's book of lights is edged spair.

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THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS BY ROSS GAY

The poet Ross Gay, ambassador for light, wr about a time he was New York, and saw a man feedg a pigeon perched on his shoulr. He looks closer, and se--Ross Gay -- the bird dippg s head to the hand the man mt have been holdg very near to his own face, so that the feedg was not only kd of romantic, but allud to that origal feedg the bird experienced-- a mother droppg mastited vtl to the ty chippers gaped mouth, which is, after all, the first romance. Bim Awunmi Act Five-- Delight At the End of the Gay I spect that 's simply a feature of beg an adult, what I will ll beg grown, or a grown person--Bim Awunmi Aga, Ross Gay -- to have endured some variety of thorough emotnal turmoil, to have ma your way to the brk, and if you're lucky, to have stepped back om , if not permanently, then for some time, or time to Awunmi This is light number 100-- "Grown.

" Ross go on to talk about the importance of seeg thgs as they are, the moment where you don't feel panic, or spair, or Gay And knowg what I have felt before, and might feel aga, feel a sense of relief, which is to, or rather, water to Awunmi This last story is about someone who's fed by light, but then los .

I n check that off my to-do Awunmi So wh the qutn md, Tracy started risg a brand new journal, not unlike Ross Gay's book of lights.