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."
Contents:
- WRERS LIVE! ROSS GAY, MARYLAND HUMANI TOUR
- ROSS GAY ON TOUR FOR INCG JOY
- “THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS” AUTHOR ROSS GAY TO TOUR MARYLAND VIRTUALLY
- ROSS GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- BLOG TOUR: INCG JOY BY ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY TICKETS, SCHLE & TOUR DAT 2023
WRERS LIVE! ROSS GAY, MARYLAND HUMANI TOUR
In partnership wh Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humani, Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Ivy Bookshop will -host wrer/poet Ross Gay for a stop on the virtual 2021 One Maryland One Book Author Tour. Dcribed as “a llectn of genre-fyg says, ” Gay’s The Book of Delights is this year’s selectn for the program.
Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.
In nversatn wh Ross Gay is Lia Purpura. In the geoly wrten and timely piec, prize-wng poet and thor Ross Gay nsirs the joy we ce when we re for each other, pecially durg life’s evable hardships. (Baltimore, MD) – This year, 2021 One Maryland One Book thor Ross Gay will make virtual viss to Maryland to discs his book, The Book of Delights: Essays.
ROSS GAY ON TOUR FOR INCG JOY
Gay wrote one say per day over a year and took the time to fd “lights” his everyday life. Rears n look to Gay’s llectn as a gui to fdg their own daily “lights.
“Ross Gay also don’t shy away om life’s hardships.
“THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS” AUTHOR ROSS GAY TO TOUR MARYLAND VIRTUALLY
Gay says: “I’m so grateful that The Book of Delights was chosen for One Maryland One Book. The first nonfictn book om award-wng poet Ross Gay is a rerd of the small joys we often overlook our by liv.
Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophil lights: a iend’s unabashed e of air quot, cradlg a tomato seedlg aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgement between the only two black people a room.
But Gay never dismiss the plexi, even the terrors, of livg Ameri as a black man or the elogil and psychic vlence of our nsumer culture or the loss of those he lov. More than any other subject, though, Gay celebrat the bety of the natural world—his garn, the flowers peekg out of the siwalk, the hypnotic movements of a prayg mantis. Ross Gay is the thor of The Book of Delights, a genre-fyg book of says, and four books of poetry, cludg his most recent, Be Holdg, a love song to legendary basketball player Juli Ervg—known as Dr.
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Gay is a foundg edor, wh Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the onle sports magaze “Some Call Ball’. ” A foundg board member of the Bloomgton Communy Orchard, a non-prof, ee-u-for-all food jtice and joy project, Gay has received fellowships om Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Wrer’s Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundatn. Olaf CollegeThe Common Read: The Book of DelightsNorthfield, MNMore rmatnSeptember 17Barn & Noble, NoblvilleSigng The Book of DelightsIndianapolis, INMore rmatnSeptember 20Pacific Northwt Booksellers Associatn TrashowAuthors Over-Easy BreakfastTaa, WA More rmatnSeptember 22*Daytime, Virtual: Cy College of New YorkCommuny ReadEveng, -person: INnversatn wh Aimee NezhumatathilIndiana HumaniBloomgton, IN More rmatnSeptember 27Slippery Rock UniversySlippery Rock, PASeptember 28Virtual: Pongo PoetrySpeakg VolumMore rmatnSeptember 29Virtual: Orn & Person Place Thg Prent "A Conversatn wh Ross Gay"More rmatnSeptember 30*Virtual: Bookfom prents: Sports, AnnotatedBrooklyn Book Ftival Bookend EventMore rmatnOctober 4*Virtual: Ama Codjoe at Loyalty Books featurg Ross GayMore rmatnOctober 5Virtual: Pueblo Cy LibraryAll Pueblo Reads Catalog of Unabashed GratuMore rmatnOctober 14Midwt Inpennt Booksellers Associatn Heartland TrashowSt.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
Through a kd of lyric rearch, or lyric medatn, Ross Gay nnects Dr. And how that reachg might be somethg like & Reviews“The brilliant fourth book om Gay...
”— Publishers Weekly starred review“Ross Gay’s work is not only celebratory. ”—RHINO“In turng an stance of athletic prows and grace to an expansive metaphoric visn, Gay pulls off a syntactil tour force. ”—Baltimore Art“Gay’s poem theoriz an ethics that is pably polil, and s ebullient gratu, fore and aft, reads not jt as an overflow of thankfulns but as a ncrete practice of the ethics Gay suggts.
BLOG TOUR: INCG JOY BY ROSS GAY
Ross Gay tak one fluid human gture and through expands the lungs of personal and munal history so they might hold all joy, terror, and vlence of this world.
In this terrible era, Ross Gay has wrten a book that breath this broken world and then returns to so we might breathe too.
Ross Gay has once aga proven himself one of our greatt poets. Aga and aga, the betiful note he holds and hands, that’s what Ross Gay be sayg.
ROSS GAY TICKETS, SCHLE & TOUR DAT 2023
95) / Number of pag 288 / Publitn date Febary 12, 2019 / ISBN 9781616207922Purchase: Algonqu / IndieBound / Bookshop / Powell'sFrom the Publisher: The New York Tim btsellg book of says celebratg ordary lights the world around by one of Ameri's most origal and observant wrers, award-wng poet Ross Gay. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophil lights: a iend’s unabashed e of air quot, cradlg a tomato seedlg aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people a room.
More than anythg else, though, Gay celebrat the bety of the natural world–his garn, the flowers peekg out of the siwalk, the hypnotic movements of a prayg mantis. The remarkable piec serve as a powerful and necsary remr that we n, and should, stake out a space our liv for & Reviews“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonr at every turn, bolsterg my belief the untls small miracl that surround . Gay, an award-wng poet, knows the value of formal nstrat: his experienc of ‘light, ’ rerd daily for a year, vary wily but yield revealg patterns through sights about everythg om nature and the body to race and masculy.
’” —The New Yorker“Ross Gay’s poems are ltle celebratns of joy, and this book of mi-says—each centerg around a particular 'light, ’ om sleepg your cloth to plantg tomato seedlgs to the nod of greetg between the only two black people a room—is a pure balm for your soul. ” —Celte Ng for “You’ll fd that the lights of Gay’s world illumate the lights of yours, that his wonr is ntag and has ed you to epen your own.