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.'
Contents:
- FORESTS SPEAKERS SERI: ROSS GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- A GARN OF GRATU: POET ROSS GAY
- Q&A: POET ROSS GAY IS ON A ROLL: HE TALKS GARNS AND GRATU
FORESTS SPEAKERS SERI: ROSS GAY
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." * ross gay trees *
FORESTS Speakers Seri: Ross Gay. Thursday, Febary 4, 2021, 7:30 PM"The Tre Wave Their Knotted Branch And": A Conversatn wh Ross Gay.
To view the discsn om Febary 4th, please click: Ross Gay. Gay, please vis his personal webse: Ross Gay. Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
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… * ross gay trees *
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.
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. We are pleased to share Ross Gay’s troductn to the book as an exclive onle excerpt.
STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)
In his first say llectn sce 'The Book of Delights,' Ross Gay explor how joy is more plited than we thk—and more attaable. * ross gay trees *
— Ross Gay, 2023. Introductn pyright © 2023 by Ross Gay.
'" Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross GayI felt like we uld all e a nversatn wh Ross Gay today.
Ross Gay is garner - he is also an award wng poet and a profsor. "Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross Gaythor of "talog of unabashed gratu" (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015) Ross's work, as he says, is often about how we are tendg to one another this world. THINKING OUT LOUD this so thkg out loud this week –When I say that garns and garners are tersectnal agents of powerful powerful change this world - Ross Gay and his garng impulse are everythg to do wh this - he, his stunts, the tre the munal orchard, the muny of humans related to the muny orchard (and we all are humans related to the muny orchard), embody the perfect fact that Garng is an ethil orientatn towards generosy, abundance, re, Joy and an herent and perennial sense of Thanksgivg.
ROSS GAY
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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: It’s sort of amazg to me. Gay: [lghs] Yeah, totally.
ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
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Gay: Right, yeah. Gay: That’s a really good qutn.
Gay: But ’s amazg, right?
ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
Gay: Wouldn’t turn to a monster.
Gay: In some ways. Gay: Verndale, Mnota. Gay: Anyone om Verndale?
Gay: There’s 500 people Verndale. Gay: And that’s the thg.
A GARN OF GRATU: POET ROSS GAY
Gay: The nnectn between the dyg and the joy? Gay: Say aga?
Q&A: POET ROSS GAY IS ON A ROLL: HE TALKS GARNS AND GRATU
Gay: That’s jt fuckg dumb. Gay: Oh, yeah, sorry.
Gay: Totally.