Ross Gay
Autor(a) de The Book of Delights: Essays
About the Author
Ross Gay is the author of the essay collection Inciting Joy and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2021 Be Holding won the PEN/Jean Stein Book mostrar mais Award. He teaches at Indiana University. mostrar menos
Obras por Ross Gay
A Small Needful Fact 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contribuidor — 114 exemplares
Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (2017) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1974-08-01
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Youngstown, Ohio, USA
- Educação
- Lafayette College (BA)
Sarah Lawrence College (MFA|Poetry)
Temple University (PHD|American Literature)
Membros
Críticas
Rich and delicious and kind. Favorites: "Spoon," "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian", "Ode to buttoning and Unbuttoning my Shirt", "Ode to Drinking Water From My Hands", "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude."
It seems rare for poetry collections to encompass both brutality and tenderness so well. Ross Gay's poetry is a journey through every emotion and a class in itself on description.
As he did in The Book of Delights, poet Ross Gay spends a year writing out everyday things that delight him. Eighty-one are included here, ranging widely in topic and tone, and including an appendix of "short" delights that didn't make a full essay and books that he mentions in the text or was reading while he wrote these.
Each essayette is only about 2-3 pages long, making it perfect to dip into at busy times. Even so, I could have finished it faster, but held myself back, wanting to savor the read and engage with Gay's thoughts. Despite the name, not every essay is happy and it's not at all twee. There's real life here, including grief and racism and the full gamut of human experiences. But, without that, can we really experience what we call delight anyways? Gay makes me want to do something similar myself, to ruminate on quotidian delights and enjoy them all the more. Highly recommended.… (mais)
Each essayette is only about 2-3 pages long, making it perfect to dip into at busy times. Even so, I could have finished it faster, but held myself back, wanting to savor the read and engage with Gay's thoughts. Despite the name, not every essay is happy and it's not at all twee. There's real life here, including grief and racism and the full gamut of human experiences. But, without that, can we really experience what we call delight anyways? Gay makes me want to do something similar myself, to ruminate on quotidian delights and enjoy them all the more. Highly recommended.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 12
- Membros
- 1,453
- Popularidade
- #17,687
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 46
- ISBN
- 35
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
Favorite poems: both versions of the title poem, "American Dreaming," "Isaac," "Love, Here's the Deal," and "Ode to the Redbud."