At Jacket Copy, an terview wh Ross Gay on how feels to be up for so many lerary awards wh his third llectn, Catalog of Unabashed Gratu.…
Contents:
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- UNABASHED GRATITUDE & STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU
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- ROSS GAY INTERVIEW AT JACKET COPY: HE HAS HIS OWN ORCHARD!
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HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
On the Co Swch podst, Ross Gay reflects on his 2019 llectn The Book of Delights, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love." * ross gay orchard *
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 is passnate about poetry, garng and basketball.
UNABASHED GRATITUDE & STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY
Ross Gay is passnate about poetry, garng and basketball. “I gus you uld say that I thk all three thgs alter our notn of time," he said. * ross gay orchard *
Gay jt moved back to Bloomgton, Indiana, after a ne-month fellowship at Harvard Universy. Gay says he wr poems about thgs that he has powerful qutns about, “qutns that a poem won’t answer.
ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
Learn more about Ross Gay: Interview—Be Holdg, Gratu, Delights here. Read this article and download our Free Rourc at Nadia Colburn . % * ross gay orchard *
Gay is also workg on a book about nnectns between land and race. Gay wrote a poem about Eric Garner, the Ain-Amerin man who died after New York Cy police officers put him a chokehold while tryg to arrt him. Gay says he was stck after readg his obuary The New York Tim.
Gay’s poem “Burial” is about the ath of his father and about transformatn. You n hear Gay read the poem here or read the text below.
ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU
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From Ross Gay’s “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu”, Ptsburgh Poetry Seri (2015). Ross Gay is the thor of three books: “Agast Which”, “Brgg the Shovel Down”, and “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu”, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. '" Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross GayRoss Gay is garner - he is also an award wng poet and a profsor.
"Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross Gaythor of "talog of unabashed gratu" (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015) Ross's work, as he says, is often about how we are tendg to one another this world.
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Poet and garner Ross Gay shar wh his powerful voice and reverence for the life of a garn and s garner – munal, dividual, spirual and many ways people cultivate their plac mov me every sgle day. THINKING OUT LOUD this so thkg out loud this week –When I say that garns and garners are tersectnal agents of powerful powerful change this world - Ross Gay and his garng impulse are everythg to do wh this - he, his stunts, the tre the munal orchard, the muny of humans related to the muny orchard (and we all are humans related to the muny orchard), embody the perfect fact that Garng is an ethil orientatn towards generosy, abundance, re, Joy and an herent and perennial sense of Thanksgivg.
ROSS GAY INTERVIEW AT JACKET COPY: HE HAS HIS OWN ORCHARD!
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.
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Ross Gay: Thank you, ’s good to be wh you too.