Spir lifter and ld poet Ross Gay, thor of The Book of Delights, will vis Portland on the heels of a new publitn. Incg Joy digs to practic of joyful nnectn and mutual aid durg challengg tim, which sounds like a much-need addn to the wrer's sightful ovre. Ross Gay at Powell's Cy of Books Portland, OR - Wednday, November 16, 2022 - EverOut Portland
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ROSS GAY
Award-wng poet Ross Gay returns wh The Book of Delights, llectg a seri of short lyric says wrten daily over the urse of a tumultuo year. Ross Gay at Powell's Cy of Books Portland, OR - EverOut Portland * ross gay powell's *
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. 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 acknowledgment 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.
CRYSTAL POWELL, AN INTERVIEW WH ROSS GAY
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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 .
ROSS GAY
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.