Poet Ross Gay on his new book, 'Incg Joy' | CNN

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• ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ IS A GIFT THAT’S MEANT TO BE SHARED
• POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
• ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
• ROSS GAY
• THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS BY ROSS GAY

ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY’ IS A GIFT THAT’S MEANT TO BE SHARED

I began readg “Incg Joy” a profound state of, I rpected s thor, Ross Gay, for the whimsy, disciple and fiance that produced his prr say and poetry llectns, “The Book of Delights” and “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, ” which won a 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award.

Wh “Incg Joy, ” which spir to look beyond the miseri of our era to envisn a more welg future, Gay vlts over the possibily of treacle to offer a ncept of joy ak to what Audre Lor nceptualized her say “Us of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, ” which she wrote, “The sharg of joy, whether physil, emotnal, psychic, or tellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which n be the basis for unrstandg much of what is not shared between them, and lsens the threat of their difference. Rather, as Gay wr, “What if joy is not only entangled wh pa, or sufferg, or sorrow, but is also what emerg om how we re for each other through those thgs?

”As direct as he n be when makg a pot he don’t want rears to miss, Gay prefers digrsns that are, and of themselv, dialectil enchantments. An cement is what Gay means to liver, and he do.

POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW

Whether wrg about droppg to a hang, durg which two iends give each other the kd of attentn that Simone Weil lled the purt of generosi, or about gam of pickup, or about the pernic racism that plagu our untry, or about the stultifyg stctur of higher tn, Gay prov that “real learng is unpredictable, improvisatory, and by fn, nfoundg. ”Gay’s radil openns to possibily leads to subtle discernments of his errors of judgment, such as dismissg the humany of his ad father to avoid the hurt of his own wound feelgs.

”Incg JoyEssaysBy Ross GayAlgonqu. In a natural follow-up to his prev llectn, The Book of Delights, Gay, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award Poetry for Catalogue of Unabashed Gratu, mat about joy a warm, ndid memoir posed of 12 says.

For Gay, cultivatg joy volv mdful observatn.

ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'

” As a creative wrg teacher, Gay rejects the workshop format, where stunts try to “fix” a classmate’s poem.

” For Gay, muny opens a path to joy. Poet Ross Gay explor the qutns – What c joy?

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Wrten over the urse of the panmic, Gay ponrs joy, fg ls as the absence of sorrow and rather as our rponse to .

Jt look at the way the garners share their extra vegetabl, Gay not. And the are jt a few of endls exampl, Gay tells CNN. CNN spoke wh Gay prr to his new book’s release.

THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS BY ROSS GAY

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 spent a year wrg daily says about thgs that light him. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Gay about some of the says clud his new book, The Book of Delights.