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!
Contents:
- ROSS GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- READG BY ROSS GAY
- GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY READG HIS POEMS – VIO – NATNAL POETRY MONTH
- ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY: IN PRAISE OF THE POETRY READG
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 reading *
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.
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.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
* ross gay reading *
”— 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.
”—Washgton Inpennt Review of Books“Ross Gay follows The Book of Delights wh another dazzlg llectn of lyric says.
READG BY ROSS GAY
In honor of Natnal Poetry Month, we will be postg vios of some of our favore poets readg their work. Ross Gay is a poet ... * ross gay reading *
Gay exus a generosy of spir. ”— 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.
GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
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. * ross gay reading *
”— 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.
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.
ROSS GAY READG HIS POEMS – VIO – NATNAL POETRY MONTH
"— 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. 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.
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.
ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
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.
ROSS GAY
Gay: It’s sort of amazg to me. Gay: [lghs] Yeah, totally.
ROSS GAY: IN PRAISE OF THE POETRY READG
Gay: Right, yeah. Gay: That’s a really good qutn.