The Book of Delights — ROSS GAY

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S BE HOLDG
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU
• THE ARCHIVE PROJECT - ROSS GAY: EVERYBODY READS 2021
• ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

ROSS GAY

Gay is the -thor, wh Aimee Nezhumatathil, of the chapbook Lace and Pyre: Letters om Two Garns (2014), and wh Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., River (2014).

Ross Gay was born Augt 1, 1974 to a Black father and whe mother Youngstown, Oh, but he grew up Levtown, Pennsylvania. Check all the awards nomated and won by Ross Gay.

Ross Gay was born on Augt 1, 1974, Youngstown, Oh. Gay is the thor of four llectns of poetry: Be Holdg (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2020); Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award; Brgg the Shovel Down (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2011); and Agast Which (Cavankerry Prs, 2006).

ROSS GAY

Gay is a foundg edor, wh Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the onle sports magaze Some Call Ball’, and an edor of the chapbook prs Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Prs. Gay’s honors clu fellowships om Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Wrers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundatn. Gay served as the Gut Edor for Poem-a-Day October 2018.

ROSS GAY’S BE HOLDG

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. Ross Gay is the thor of three books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.

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

Through a kd of lyric rearch, or lyric medatn, Ross Gay nnects Dr.

GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

And how that reachg might be somethg like & Reviews“The brilliant fourth book om Gay... ”— Publishers Weekly starred review“Ross Gay’s work is not only celebratory.

”—RHINO“In turng an stance of athletic prows and grace to an expansive metaphoric visn, Gay pulls off a syntactil tour force. ”—Baltimore Art“Gay’s poem theoriz an ethics that is pably polil, and s ebullient gratu, fore and aft, reads not jt as an overflow of thankfulns but as a ncrete practice of the ethics Gay suggts.

Ross Gay tak one fluid human gture and through expands the lungs of personal and munal history so they might hold all joy, terror, and vlence of this world. In this terrible era, Ross Gay has wrten a book that breath this broken world and then returns to so we might breathe too. Ross Gay has once aga proven himself one of our greatt poets.

ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU

Aga and aga, the betiful note he holds and hands, that’s what Ross Gay be sayg. Bee of Ross Gay (2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award wner), I found myself somewhere I never thought I would be at 1:00 a.

Ross Gay’s newt book-length poem Be Holdg is prefaced by some advice: If you kids out there don’t know who Dr. I watched this inic shot, which is central to Gay’s poem, set to every song om Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah to Parliament Funkalic’s Give Up the Funk. I end up here bee Be Holdg, like all of Gay’s work I’ve enuntered, entreats the rear’s participatn.

Bis his formal and lyril talents, one of the reasons I fd Gay such an astonishg poet is his abily to create an awarens of an other or others. Together wh Shayla Lawson, Gay -found The Tenrns Project, which he speaks about on his lightful terview wh Krista Tippett of On Beg. Gay speaks of the iative, his vtment actn wh and for others, and how this is all enpassed the word “tenr.

THE ARCHIVE PROJECT - ROSS GAY: EVERYBODY READS 2021

J fly on our screens or om above, and then as the poem mov, we too are flyg, fallg, then flyg, while beg held our flight by Gay’s liberate and tenr voice. Gay’s poem, many ways, is takg the still imag, the ptured bodi, and reanimatg them. To me, Ross Gay’s abily to fd, create, and make tangible, the nnectns between people is all the more miraculo—or rather “amazg but not miraculo”—durg the months of isolatn (5).

In 2020, I n no longer take for granted that I n be near and hold my loved on, and the tenr touch Gay endows on the subjects and objects of his attentn, cludg the rear, feels all the more prec. Poet Ross Gay joed the Creative Wrg faculty at Indiana Universy's College of Arts and Scienc 2007.

ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

In addn to his IU appotment, Gay also teach the low-rincy program at New England College. Born Youngstown, Oh, Gay grew up outsi of Philalphia. 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. 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.