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.
Contents:
- ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS
- ROSS GAY
- ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
- POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
- ROSS GAY: POETRY ANALYSIS
- GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY
ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS
Ross Gay sps says and poems by observg the world around him and qutng his relatnship to . He is lighted by what he se. * ross gay writing style *
Essayist and poet Ross Gay qutns thgs. A Ross Gay work has a distctive pot of view. Gay skillfully kns crass curs to $60-SAT verbs.
Gay has wrten four books and -wrten two chapbooks.
Gay began the project on his 42nd birthday. Gay has been travelg the untry this year givg readgs om the new book.
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Ross Gay is terted Gay wants to unrstand Gay is cur about Gay studi joy. ~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. Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh.
Gay is the -thor, wh Aimee Nezhumatathil, of the chapbook Lace and Pyre: Letters om Two Garns (2014), and wh Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., River (2014). Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay.
ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
In the last two years, seems like everyone has been searchg for joy. Now, poet Ross Gay is explorg qutns around that subject his new book "Incg Joy," a llectn of says released Tuday. * ross gay writing style *
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.
POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
On April 8, Lerary Arts will host Ross Gay, partnership wh the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundatn, as the culmatg event MCL's 2021 Everybody Reads program. Get to know Gay a ltle better before the event! * ross gay writing style *
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.
The wrer Ross Gay spent a year dog that. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)ROSS GAY: Well, one of the thgs that I realized is that - the begng, I thought, oh, man. GAY: Absolutely.
ROSS GAY: POETRY ANALYSIS
GAY: Totally. GAY: Yeah, totally.
GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
GAY: Yeah. GAY: Often. GAY: I thk I sort of felt like this is somethg that I'll be dog one way or another for the rt of my life.
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GAY: Well, not ntug - necsarily ntug to wre the says. SHAPIRO: Ross Gay's new llectn of says is lled "The Book Of Delights.
SHAPIRO: That's the wrer Ross Gay a nversatn that we first aired Febary of 2019. Poet Ross Gay explor the qutns – What c joy? 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.