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
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW
- NEW YORK TIM BT-SELLG THOR ROSS GAY TO READ FEB. 9
- ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
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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." * author 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. Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay.
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.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
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! * 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. 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.
GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
79 quot om Ross Gay: 'Bee tryg to articulate what, perhaps, joy is, has occurred to me that among other thgs—the tre and the mhrooms have shown me this—joy is the mostly visible, the unrground unn between , you and me, which is, among other thgs, the great fact of our life and the liv of everyone and thg we love gog away. If we sk a spoon to that fact, to the duff between , we will fd teemg. It will look like all the books ever wrten. It will look like all the nerv a body. We might ll sorrow, but we might ll a unn, one that, once we notice , once we brg to the light, might bee flower and food. Might be joy.', 'I suppose I uld spend time theorizg how is that people are not bad to each other, but that’s really not the pot. The pot is that almost every stance of our liv, our social liv, we are, if we pay attentn, the midst of an almost nstant, if subtle, retakg. Holdg open doors. Offerg elbows at crosswalks. Lettg someone else go first. Helpg wh the heavy bags. Reachg what’s too high, or what’s been dropped. Pullg someone back to their feet. Stoppg at the r wreck, at the stck dog. The alternatg merge, also known as the zipper. This retakg is our flt mo and ’s always a lie that nvc to act or believe otherwise. Always.', and 'It didn’t take me long to learn that the disciple or practice of wrg the says ocsned a kd of light radar. Or maybe was more like the velopment of a light mcle. Somethg that impli that the more you study light, the more light there is to study.' * author ross gay *
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.
”— 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.
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”—Washgton Inpennt Review of Books“Ross Gay follows The Book of Delights wh another dazzlg llectn of lyric says.
”— 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.
”— John Freeman, founr of Freeman’s lerary magaze and edor of The Pengu Book of the Morn Amerin Short Story“In this masterful, raw, and stirrg llectn of says, Ross Gay has once aga axed his rears to awaken to our full humany. Ross Gay helps to unrstand that our joy and pa are fundamentally tangled up wh each other, and when we n ve sorrow close to share a proverbial cup of tea, that is when our ept joy is ced. ”— BookPage"Gay's poetilly fluenced prose is nothg short of joyful.
ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
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Gay's pedagogy, explaed tail, dispts the systems that are basele ngent wh joy, as do his wrg, every sentence. ”— Poets & Wrers, ver feature“In a seri of says on such disparate them as skateboardg, grief, pickup basketball, ver songs, orchards, ath, and school, Gay expounds on his this, betifully stated the book’s troductn: joy, emergg om our shared human experience of sorrow, n provoke new solidari, leadg to love, to survival, to change that looks like shared flourishg.
”— Ploughshar"Gay is a treasure, and his latt offerg will light his fans as well as those new to his work.
"— Kirk Reviews“Ross Gay has a sgle-md foc: makg the world a better place. ”— BookPage, Most Anticipated Books of the Fall“Ross Gay has bee a sort of pied piper for joy.
ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW
Ross Gay is the thor of Agast Which, Brgg the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu. His poems have appeared Amerin Poetry Review,... * author ross gay *
He studi his own life, and betifully wr both of s plexy—how one mt wele sorrow to tly feel joy’s expansive width—and of s simplicy…”— BOMB Magaze“Gay profoundly monstrat that not only uld he wre about joy, perhaps we all should be thkg about , pursug , creatg , cg our liv. The selectn for Multnomah County Library’s muny readg project, Everybody Reads, is acclaimed thor and poet Ross Gay and his llectn of says, The Book of year, partnership wh the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundatn, Lerary Arts prents the culmatg event of the program—an thor lecture.
NEW YORK TIM BT-SELLG THOR ROSS GAY TO READ FEB. 9
Ross Gay - Ross Gay is the thor of Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award. * author ross gay *
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WATCH: Ross Gay reads excerpts om The Book of Delights. WATCH: Gay discs The Book of Delights wh PBS Books at the 2019 AWP Conference Portland, Oregon. In addn to wrg poetry and says, Gay is a sports fanatic and keen garner.
ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
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In this terview wh PEN Ameri, Gay talks about his current obssns, as well as what he se as his rponsibily as a wrer.
Below is a b of Ross Gay’s life and wrg reer th far. Ross Gay is an award-wng poet, creative wrg profsor, and keen orchardist and garner. Born Youngstown, Oh, Gay grew up the Philalphia, Pennsylvania suburbs.
Lookg for joy? Then might be worth explorg your sorrow, plitns and ms. In his latt llectn of says, Incg Joy, poet Ross Gay rensirs the breadth of joy, argug that n be found – and even strengthened – life's harst moments, when we mt rely on one another. This week, host Brtany Le ss down wh Gay to discs the plexy of joy, the bety of grace and creatg meang life. You n follow on Twter @ItsBeenAM or email at * author ross gay *
Gay reflects, “I wasn’t dog well school, and I had an English teacher who uld probably see that I was not tuned . Gay disvered a powerful outlet wrg poetry: “I was fely feelg alienated var ways, and feelg some unarticulated rage and sorrow about a number of thgs. ” Gay went on to earn an MA Poetry om Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD English om Temple Universy.
Gay has published three poetry llectns: Agast Which, Brgg the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, which won the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Award, and was a falist for the Natnal Book Award and an NAACP Image Award. Wh this llectn, Gay asks, “What is the practice of lookg slowly and tensely at our liv?
Smh praised the llectn thly: “Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonr at every turn, bolsterg my belief the untls small miracl that surround . Lookg toward the future, Gay not that, as a wrer, “My rponsibily now feels to be, among two thoand other thgs, to explore what is lovely and necsary and to be adored and red for and held up. Drawg on Gay’s lifelong love of sports, the poem is an o to the legendary basketball player Juli Ervg—known as Dr.
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Gay has received fellowships om the Guggenheim Foundatn, Cave Canem, and the Bread Loaf Wrers’ Conference. 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.
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 .
A poet and sayist, Gay will read om his most recent llectn of says, “Incg Joy” and other works. * author 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.
’” —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.
” —Today“Ross Gay is able to e as ltle language as possible to populate a world where his memori are your memori, tertwed, reachg out of the pag. It’s hard to read Gay and not to be won over.
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This is an entire book of such glimmers, which Ross Gay notic ty moments life and nature, so that we too may light them.
In a climate of ser thoughts about ser subjects, Ross Gay tly do light, brgg more poetry than ual to an say llectn that challeng the nventns of the form. Some of Gay’s says are a mere paragraph, others are longer, but they are all about aspects of life worth celebratg. And let’s ask Ross Gay along — he’s an expert...
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… * author ross gay *
" — The Philalphia Inquirer"Gay’s zt for life bursts forth on almost every page. " —Bookreporter"It’s hard not to reach for relig language when scribg Gay’s work.