Vio: Ross Gay

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY SPEAKER & BOOKG INFORMATN
• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
• ROSS GAY
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
• GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
• CATEGORY:ROSS GAY
• WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY
• STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)
• NICKNAM, FIREFLI AND RECKLS AIR QUOT: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'

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HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'

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ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'

Over the next eleven pag, Gay, a longtime hoop lover himself, offers a medatn on the bety of the pickup game, and how a good urt is a microsm of mocracy. ”Gay, a 48-year-old poet and profsor at Indiana Universy, has ma a reer of explorg the wonr to be found our everyday liv, notably his btsellg 2019 say llectn, The Book of Delights. Courty of Ross GayGQ: A word that up aga and aga your work is the word practice.

Ross Gay: I started to thk about that word when I was dog The Book of Delights. 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.

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.

GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

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 is the thor of three books: Agast Which, Brgg the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, which won the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award for Poetry 2015 and the Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award 2016. As a renowned expert and highly sought-after speaker, Ross Gay's expertise. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Gay about some of the says clud his new book, The Book of Delights.

CATEGORY:ROSS GAY

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)ROSS GAY: Well, one of the thgs that I realized is that - the begng, I thought, oh, man. 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.

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.

WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY

To which Ross Gay rponds word and ed, how n we not be joyful, pecially a moment like this? We practice tenrns and mercy part bee to unrstand that we are all sufferg is one qualy of what Ross Gay lls “adult joy.

Ross Gay: It is joy by which the labor that will make the life that I want, possible.

Ross Gay is a profsor of English at Indiana Universy Bloomgton and a wrer of poetry as well as says. Gay: Oh, my God, they’re jt like, “Well, why am I dog what they’re tellg me to do all the time? Gay: That’s somethg too — I was like, man, I drk a lot of ffee.

STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)

Gay: Yeah, my garn, and ’s funny, bee people, when they talk about the book, they notice the garn as a primary feature of —. Gay: Our blackberri always do really good, so I’m pumped for blackberri.

Gay: For one, ’s jt fun to be a garn, for me, dreamg about what uld happen: that kd of mystil space, actually, of tryg to figure out what this thg that I do here uld be five years, that kd of strange dreamg space that is. Tippett: We slightly shortened Ross Gay’s readg of “Loerg” here for time, but you n fd the whole say the uneded versn of the On Beg podst — available wherever you like to listen.

NICKNAM, FIREFLI AND RECKLS AIR QUOT: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'

Also, fd this show aga our Poets and Poetry library at After a short break, more wh Ross Gay. Today reflectg on a practice of light wh the wrer Ross Gay, at the 2019 Wordplay Ftival Mneapolis. Gay: And I thk also knows, or to know, that what is galvanizg, as well, is what we love, and has a kd of belief that — and also believ the thg — the book self believ that ’s elbowg s neighbor and beg like, “Right?

Gay: My iend Shayla and I were talkg about jt what might be a nice project to do the days, and so we cid to start this thg lled The Tenrns Project. Gay: Yeah, I often thk, when I thk of tenrns, I thk of my father. Gay: The way the lights are workg is pretty amazg, some of the reflectns up there.