Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. He earned a BA om Lafayette College, an MFA Poetry om Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD English om…
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ROSS GAY
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. 00) / Number of pag 256 / Publitn date October 25, 2022 / ISBN 9781643753041Boston Globe’s Bt Books of 2022Shelf Awarens's Bt Adult Books of ’s Favore Books of 2022One of the San Francis Chronicle’s Favore Books of 2022Bt dbooks of 2022, BookPageOrr: Bookshop / IndieBoundFrom the publisher: 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.
Ross Gay will break your heart. In that sneaky way Ross Gay has of lovgly disarmg you before gettg you to dwell rooms of your heart you’d left vant, Incg Joy s tular emotn as a wdow to sorrow and rage, to gifts and loss, to the tricky bs of beg alive. Ewg, thor of Ghosts The Schoolyard, Electric Arch, and Marvel Comic’s Ironheart seri“In says that are lyril, pensive, and surprisg, poet Gay sheds light on all the plac joy n lurk […] Gay’s a remarkable wrer, and the llectn mak for a spellbdg medatn on the ways joy epens and grows the pany of grief, fear, and loss.
”— Publishers Weekly, bt book of 2022: nonfictn"Ross Gay is as sightful and lyril as an sayist as he is as a poet.
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”— Chris Hedg, Pulzer Prize-wner and thor of War is Force that Giv Us Meang and Ameri: The Farewell Tour"Wrten over the urse of the panmic, Gay ponrs joy, fg ls as the absence of sorrow and rather as our rponse to . "— USA Today“A gift that’s meant to be shared […] spir to look beyond the miseri of our era to envisn a more welg future, Gay…offer[s] a ncept of joy ak to what Audre Lor nceptualized her say ‘Us of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. ”—Tricycle: The Buddhist Review // Review“What Gay livers is no small gift.
”—Washgton Inpennt Review of Books“Ross Gay follows The Book of Delights wh another dazzlg llectn of lyric says.
Gay exus a generosy of spir. ”— The Rump, November book club selectn“Stunng…Gay’s cursy is prent on every page and his precise yet playful prose sparkl…This ronant, vivid medatn shouldn’t be missed. ”— Publishers Weekly, starred review“Ross Gay's work throws off so much light, I've often wonred if was powered by a superr energy source.