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Ross Gay's essays have been called "exquisite" (Tracy K. Smith),
"imperative" (the New York Times Book Review), and "brilliant" (Ada
LimĂłn). Now, in this new collection of genre-defying pieces, again
written over the course of a year, one of America's most original
voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay,
what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from
the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to
the pleasure of refusing the "ubiquitous, nefarious" scannable QR
code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking
a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay
revels in the natural world-sweet potatoes being harvested, a
hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a
wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbour's fig
tree-and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights
us. For his many fans eagerly awaiting this new volume and for
readers who have enjoyed the works of Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Zadie
Smith, and Rebecca Solnit, Gay once again offers us "literature
that feels as fluent and familiar as a chat with a close friend"
(the New York Review of Books). The Book of (More) Delights is a
collection to savor and share.
New edition of poignant selected images from famed Life
photographer W. Eugene Smithâs Pittsburgh project. Â In
1955, having just resigned from his high-profile but stormy career
with Life Magazine, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three
weeks in Pittsburgh and produce one hundred photographs for noted
journalist and author Stefan Lorantâs book commemorating the
cityâs bicentennial. Smith ended up staying a year,
compiling twenty thousand images for what would be the most
ambitious photographic essay of his life. But only a fragment
of this work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction
that it was his greatest collection of photographs. Â In
2001, Sam Stephenson published for the first time an assemblage of
the core images from this project, selections that Smith asserted
were the âsynthesis of the whole,â presenting not only a
portrayal of Pittsburgh but of postwar America. This new
edition, updated with a foreword by the poet Ross Gay, offers
a fresh vision of Smith's masterpiece. Â
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As Heard on NPR's This American Life
'The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry,
lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties . . .
contagious in their joy' New York Times The winner of the NBCC
Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric
essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the
purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating
ordinary wonders. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical
delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato
seedling aboard an aeroplane, the silent nod of acknowledgement
between the only two black people in a room. But Gay never
dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America
as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our
consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. More than anything
other subject, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural
world - his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the
hypnotic movements of a praying mantis. The Book of Delights is
about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life
closely observed. These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and
necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in
our lives for delight. *** 'These charming, digressive "essayettes"
surprise and challenge more than a reader might expect . . .
experiences of "delight," recorded daily for a year, vary widely
but yield revealing patterns through insights about everything from
nature and the body to race and masculinity.' New Yorker 'Pure balm
for your soul. Savor one at a time every morning, this summer, or
wolf them all down en masse on a gorgeous sunny day.' Celeste Ng 'A
reminder of what the personal essay is best at: finding the
profound in the mundane . . . His delight is infectious. It's hard
to read Gay and not to be won over.' Seattle Times
An Indie Poetry Bestseller! What the world needs now - featuring
poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith
and more. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote
to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of
life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers
readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known
poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including
inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross
Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. The work of these poets captures
the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to
Love the World, which contains new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo,
and Jane Hirshfield, invites readers to use poetry as part of their
daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance
and joy to be found everywhere. With pauses for stillness and
invitations for writing and reflection throughout, as well as
reading group questions and topics for discussion in the back, this
book can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any
group setting.
"BRILLIANT." --Ada Limon, U.S. poet laureate An intimate and
electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times
bestselling author of The Book of Delights. A Publishers Weekly
Best Book of 2022 In these gorgeously written and timely pieces,
prizewinning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite
when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable
hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice
recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand
it. In "We Kin," Gay thinks about the garden (es pecially around
August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of
mutual aid; in "Share Your Bucket," he explores skateboard ing's
reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity
in "Grief Suite"; and in "Through My Tears I Saw," he recognizes
what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. In an era
when divisive voices take up so much airspace, Inciting Joy offers
a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our
attention to what brings us together, to what we love? Taking a
clear-eyed look at injustice, political polarization, and the
destruction of the natural world, Gay shows us how we might resist,
how the study of joy might lead us to a wild, unpredictable,
transgressive, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact, it just might
help us survive.
A collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which
prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite
when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable
hardships. In "We Kin" he thinks about the garden (especially
around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a
laboratory of mutual aid; in "Share Your Bucket" he explores
skate-boarding's reclamation of public space; he considers the
costs of masculinity in "Grief Suite"; and in "Through My Tears I
Saw," he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he
was dying. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air
space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: what might be
possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together? Full
of energy, curiosity, and compassion, it is essential reading from
one of our most brilliant writers.
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry
category. Winner of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Finalist
for the 2015 National Book Award, poetry category.Finalist for the
2015 NAACP Image Awards in Poetry. 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. That is, this is a book
that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places
where all - death, sorrow, loss - is converted into what might,
with patience, nourish us.
Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being
inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the
ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our
humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and
finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were
to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying
question: How might we better love one another?
A sweeping retrospective of Alma W. Thomas's wide-reaching artistic
practice that sheds new light on her singular search for beauty
Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo
show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alma W. Thomas
(1891-1978) is known for her large abstract paintings filled with
irregular patterns of bright colors. This insightful reassessment
of Thomas's life and work reveals her complex and deliberate
artistic existence before, during, and after the years of
commercial and critical success, and describes how her innovative
palette and loose application of paint grew out of a long study of
color theory. Essays trace Thomas's journey from semirural Georgia
to international recognition and situate her work within the
context of the Washington Color School and creative communities
connected to Howard University. Featuring rarely seen theatrical
designs, sculpture, family photographs, watercolors, and
marionettes, this volume demonstrates how Thomas's pursuit of
beauty extended to every facet of her life-from her exuberant
abstractions to the conscientious construction of her own persona
through community service, teaching, and gardening. Published in
association with The Columbus Museum and the Chrysler Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (July
9-October 3, 2021) The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (October
30, 2021-January 23, 2022) Frist Art Museum, Nashville (February
25-June 5, 2022) The Columbus Museum, GA (July 1-September 25,
2022)
A collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which
prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite
when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable
hardships. In "We Kin" he thinks about the garden (especially
around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a
laboratory of mutual aid; in "Share Your Bucket" he explores
skate-boarding's reclamation of public space; he considers the
costs of masculinity in "Grief Suite"; and in "Through My Tears I
Saw," he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he
was dying. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air
space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: what might be
possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together? Full
of energy, curiosity, and compassion, it is essential reading from
one of our most brilliant writers.
Winner of PEN America Jean Stein Award Through a kind of lyric
research, or lyric meditation, Be Holding connects Dr. Jâs
famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los
Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the
Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence,
to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. Be
Holding wonders how the imagination, or how our looking, might make
us, or bring us, closer to each other. How our looking might make
us reach for each other. And might make us be reaching for each
other. And how that reaching might be something like joy.
An exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend
both the banal and unusual cruelties which are inevitably delivered
to us, and which we equally deliver unto others. These poems comb
through violence and love, fear and loss, exploring the common
denominators in each. Against Which seeks the ways human beings
might transform themselves from participants in a thoughtless and
brutal world to laborers in a loving one.
In this new collection of poems, Weary Kingdom, DeLana R. A.
Dameron maps a journey across emotional, spiritual, and geographic
lines, from the familiarity of the honeysuckle South to a new
world, or a new kingdom-Harlem. Her poems traverse the streets of
this Black mecca with a careful eye cast toward the intimacies of
the exterior. Still, as the poems move throughout the built
environment, they navigate matters of death, love, love loss, and
family against the backdrop of a city that has yet to become home.
Indeed what looms over this weary kingdom is a longing for the
certainties of a lover's touch, the summer's sun, and the comforts
of a promised land up North. And as the poet longs, so do readers.
Ultimately they grow aware of Utopia's fragility.
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