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Contents:

• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
• ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”
• ROSS GAY
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• IN ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY,’ HAPPS DON’T EXIST A VACUUM
• GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
• NICKNAM, FIREFLI AND RECKLS AIR QUOT: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'

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

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.

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 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.

The wrer Ross Gay spent a year dog that. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)ROSS GAY: Well, one of the thgs that I realized is that - the begng, I thought, oh, man.

ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'

GAY: Absolutely.

GAY: Totally. GAY: Yeah, totally.

GAY: Yeah. GAY: Often.

ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”ROSS GAY ON THE LABOR OF “INCG JOY”

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.

ROSS GAY

GAY: Well, not ntug - necsarily ntug to wre the says. SHAPIRO: Ross Gay's new llectn of says is lled "The Book Of Delights.

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SHAPIRO: That's the wrer Ross Gay a nversatn that we first aired Febary of 2019.

IN ROSS GAY’S ‘INCG JOY,’ HAPPS DON’T EXIST A VACUUM

Tyshawn Sorey, ont, the poser and multi-stmentalist, who wrote the mic for “Be Holdg, ” a show openg Philalphia on Wisniewski for The New York TimHigh Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Gar Mician’s Latt ShowIn Philalphia, Girard College stunts are jog the poser Tyshawn Sorey and Yarn/Wire for a multimedia adaptatn of Ross Gay’s “Be Holdg. ImageBrooke O’Harra, wh the microphone, speakg wh stunt performers the show, which will be performed si a gym at Girard Wisniewski for The New York TimThey had all gathered for one of the fal rehearsals of their years--velopment, multimedia adaptatn of Ross Gay’s book-length poem “Be Holdg, ” which premier on Wednday at the gym — featurg movement, mic and work behd the scen by the school’s ’s text is nomally about a balletic, basele sop shot om the 1980 N. Asha Tejan, 16, a Girard sophomore who ntribut movement to the productn, praised Gay’s poetry, sayg he particularly relished “the way he’s able to jump om topic to topic.

If that happens, Gay might also participate the recatn of his poem.

Ga, is recg “Be Holdg” the Wisniewski for The New York TimDurg a dner break, Wisher — a longtime iend of Gay’s — said that the poem’s imagery of Dr. ”Sorey’s mic here revels a dreamy nsonance durg Gay’s first extend scriptn of Dr.

GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

ImageGay’s poem is about a storied basketball play, the legacy of Black geni and notns of Wisniewski for The New York TimIn a phone terview, Sorey ngratulated Yarn/Wire for s abily to break down his personal language of nducted improvisatns, known as Autoschediasms, and to apply to this new “quote-unquote sre, ” to the pot where he don’t even need to nduct the said that the volvement of Girard stunts “mak the poem even more powerful, when they do the movements and when they get volved some of the nversatnal parts of the poem.

ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

”O’Harra said that her visn for Gay’s poem “starts out really kd of simple: We’re a gym, there’s a person speakg, ” then marshals an unual blend of elements. SocietyQ&AOctober 25, 2022Ross Gay on the Labor of “Incg Joy”A nversatn wh the poet Ross Gay about Incg Joy, an exploratn of joy as a cril emotn that “gets to love, as a practice of survival.

Ross Gay is a poet, sayist, profsor, and avid garner and orchardist based Bloomgton, Ind. ” Gay and I spoke September about learng to negotiate rg for one another space, the “utily of school, ” the of garng for the “acutely bereaved, ” and why so many are ristant to seeg grief as the herent tw of joy. Ross Gay: I started wrg this earnt when I was watchg the greatt upward transfer of wealth , maybe, the history of history?

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.

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

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.