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1) The book of delights

Author

Gay, Ross

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"--

2) Inciting joy: essays

Author

Gay, Ross

Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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"A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"--

3) Be holding: a poem

Author

Gay, Ross

Series

Pitt poetry

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

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Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and...

4) Catalog of unabashed gratitude

Author

Gay, Ross

Series

Pitt poetry

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away-- loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it -- that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.