REVIEW: Wrers’ Tea wh Ross Gay – [art]seen

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• O TO BUTTONG AND UNBUTTONG MY SHIRT: POET ROSS GAY’S SUBTLE, STUNNG MEDATN ON LEARNG TO LIVE AND LEARNG TO DIE
• GRATEFUL FOR ROSS GAY’S CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE
• REVIEW: WRERS’ TEA WH ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY POEMS
• TAG: ROSS GAY

ROSS GAY

Ross Gay. “Wh Two Weeks the Ain-Amerin Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for the Ain-Amerin Poet Kyle Dargan and the Ain-Amerin Poet Terrance Hay, None of Whom Look Anythg Like the Others, ” and “Some Instctns on Blackns Given to My Black Friend by the Whe Woman He Briefly Dated: A Monologue, ” Indiana Review, Fall 2007.

“Stayg the Dark: A Conversatn wh Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal, ” SUNY Fredonia, Nov. “Wrg Race: A Conversatn between Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal, ” UNC Asheville, April 2008.

“Fdg Your Voice: A Workshop wh Ross Gay and Alyce Miller, ” Indiana Universy, Dec.

O TO BUTTONG AND UNBUTTONG MY SHIRT: POET ROSS GAY’S SUBTLE, STUNNG MEDATN ON LEARNG TO LIVE AND LEARNG TO DIE

That is what poet Ross Gay explor wh his light and lumo touch one of the highlights om the fourth annual Universe Verse, the poem “O to Buttong and Unbuttong My Shir” om his altogether rcatg and rucculatg 2015 poetry llectn Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (public library) — the nceptual womb out of his which his prose miracle The Book of Delights was born.

by Ross Gay. Enter Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratu. Thursday eveng, Ross Gay met wh llege wrers the Benzger Lounge to share his stori and talk about their qutns.

GRATEFUL FOR ROSS GAY’S CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE

My py of Ross Gay’s latt book. After beg troduced by Lra Thomas, Ross Gay read 3 poems: “The Openg”, “O to Sleepg My Cloth”, and “O to Buttong and Unbuttong My Shirt”. All of Gay’s poems lk bety and sadns astonishg imag that lead the rear to see not jt the problems we face as a society, but also the bety the everydayns of our world.

”, and rears know Gay has mastered the art of tlg a poem. In addn to speakg about his love of teachg and workg llaboratively wh other artists- a really “lightful” activy- Ross Gay spoke about the spiratn/procs volved his dividual work. It is this stabily or wonrg associatn of imag that rears and Ross Gay himself says fd new meang, or at the very least a shift perspective.

At the Tea Thursday eveng, Gay said that he wrote a poem that through the wrg procs transformed his relatnship wh his father, which had been straed.

REVIEW: WRERS’ TEA WH ROSS GAY

Both sad, joyful, polil, and natural, I thk ptur what a poem n be and the xtery of Ross Gay’s talents. Review | Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, Ross Gay. I say this after havg read Catalog of Unabashed Gratu by Ross Gay, a book that uld only have been wrten a world where you, ar Walt, ntue to thrive the poetic imagatn.

All of your signature ponents have been passed down to and adapted by Gay—your long breath le is there, your ecstasy, your rapture and wonr.

ROSS GAY POEMS

” Not so much Ross Gay.

But Gay unrstands the necsy of the tragic or grim mixed wh sheer abundance of wonr; ’s how life really is, and mak for more plex art than one that is too sgle-md.

Whman, that if you read Gay’s book you would mistake for your own. Gay is his own poet wh his own voice and technique. To Gay, the daily task of buttong and unbuttong a shirt is worth heraldg.

TAG: ROSS GAY

Gay go macro and micro—the pollen furred legs of a bee mgle “ this world / of spachips and subatomic / this and that. Here, “to the mistake, ” Gay hs a number of them and motifs important to the book: first, ’s an o to somethg often overlooked or unr-praised, a mistake a poem.

That Gay n make room for memori of a high school acid trip this poem is wonrful, but what tly sh this passage are the l. Gay n be a downer, or, maybe ’s better to say that he acknowledg that as joyful as life is, ’s fleetg and often hard and paful. “the openg” is another beast entirely—a twelve page multi-part poem that allows Gay to go “off topic” om chronic o to somethg strange and ep and personal.