Ross Gay's third poetry llectn, Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, is currently the nng for the $100,000 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award, a falist for the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award for poetry, and last year was a falist for the Natnal Book Award and the NAACP Image Award. And a matter of days, he'll…
Contents:
- ROSS GAY AND SOME THOUGHTS ON MERCY
- Q&A: POET ROSS GAY IS ON A ROLL: HE TALKS GARNS AND GRATU
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY
- SOME NEEDFUL FACTS ABOUT ROSS GAY
ROSS GAY AND SOME THOUGHTS ON MERCY
Ross Gay’s article “Some Thoughts On Mercy” is an acunt of an Ain Amerin’s experienc Ameri’s racist society. The story begs an ordary settg the thor’s garn. However, he remembers beg profiled bee of his lor and this sparks the journey to his experienc as an Ain Amerin. The story highlights the […] * ross gay some thoughts on mercy *
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“Some Thoughts on Mercy, ” by Ross Gay, first appeared the July 2013 issue of The Sun.
Q&A: POET ROSS GAY IS ON A ROLL: HE TALKS GARNS AND GRATU
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Copyright © 2013 by Ross Gay. Ross Gay’s article “Some Thoughts On Mercy” is an acunt of an Ain Amerin’s experienc Ameri’s racist society.
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Ross Gay ethos, pathos, and logos to appeal to the dience and succsfully relays the msage that Amerins need to rise above racism.
Gay troduc himself as an Ain Amerin teacher of creative wrg at the Indiana Universy Bloomgton. Wh this self-disclosure, Gay affirms his crentials as an Ain Amerin whose experienc he tends to discs the text, and as a wrer meang, he unrstands the medium wh which he tends to munite wh. Gay narrat his experience wh overt racism such as when someone yelled at him, “Don’t e around here wh whe girls, nigger!
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” or vert racism such as when his football teammat fed him by his racial stereotyp (Gay). Gay siar personal anecdot about his life as an Ain Amerin the Uned Stat to monstrate that his appeal for Amerins to trospect and rid themselv of the racist ias emerg om his experienc wh racism. Later on, the text mentns that the thor is “generally law-abidg, ” pays his tax, and “good-natured” among others (Gay).
The thor then wr the example to show how Amerin society has ndned Ain Amerins to thk that they are “different om whe people” while people of “all rac e dgs” (Gay).
For example, when discsg the issue of stop and isk programs, the paragraph begs wh “I shudr at the emotnal and psychic burn we’ve laid on the young black and brown New Yorkers — so many of them children” (Gay).
SOME NEEDFUL FACTS ABOUT ROSS GAY
Once the dience’s attentn is ptured, the article go on to narrate how some New York teenagers have been stopped “at least sixty to seventy tim” (Gay). The thor go on to tail how racial ephets are ed durg the stop-and-isk events and how the statistics reveal that “eighty-seven percent of stop-and-isk targets are black or Lato” (Gay). The thor narrat how his football teammat once tried to expla to him the difference between a “black person” and a “nigger” (Gay).