The book of delights / Ross Gay.
Gay, Ross, 1974- author.
2022
PS3607.A9857 Z66 2022
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Title The book of delights / Ross Gay.
Author Gay, Ross, 1974- author.
Uniform Title Essays. Selections
Edition First paperback edition.
ISBN 9781643753287 (paperback)
1643753282 (paperback)
Published Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description xxiv, 275 pages ; 18 cm
Call Number PS3607.A9857 Z66 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 814/.6
Summary "In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment 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 else, 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Note "Originally published in hardcover by Algonquin Boks of Chapel Hill in February 2019."--Title page verso.
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My birthday, kinda
Inefficiency
Flower in the curb
Blowing it off
Hole in the head
Remission still
Praying mantis
The negreeting
The high-five from strangers, etc.
Writing by hand
Transplanting
Nicknames
But, maybe ...
"Joy is such a human madness"
House party
Hummingbird
Just a dream
That's Some Bambi Shit" ...
The irrepressible: The gratitudes
Tap tap
Coffee without the saucer
Lily on the pants
Sharing a bag
Umbrella in the café
Beast mode
Airplane rituals
Weirdly untitled
Pecans
The do-over
Infinity
Ghost
Nota bene
"Love Me in a Special Way"
"Stay," by Lisa Loeb
Stacking delights
Donny Hathaway on Pandora
"To Spread the Sweetness of Love"
Baby, baby, baby
"REPENT OR BURN"
Giving my body to the cause
Among the rewards of my sloth ...
Not Grumpy Cat
Some stupid shit
Not only ...
Micro-gentrification: WE BUY GOLD
Reading palms
The sanctity of trains
Bird feeding
Kombucha in a mid-century glass
Hickories
Annoyed no more
Toto
Church poets
Public lying down
Babies, seriously
"My Life, My Life, My Life, My Life in the Sunshine"
Incorporation
Botan rice candy
Understory
"Joy is Such a Human Madness": The duff between us
"It's Just the Day I'm Having" ...

The purple cornets of spring
The volunteer
Fishing an eyelash: Two or three cents on the virtues of the poetry reading
Found things
Found things (2)
Cuplicking
Bobblehead
The jenky
The crow's ablutions
Flowers in the hands of statues
An abundance of public toilets
The wave of unfamiliars
Not for nothing
Bindweed ... delight?
Dickhead 200
Ambiguous signage sometimes
Heart to heart
Caution: Bees on bridge
Tomato on board
Purple-handed
Name: Kayte Young; phone number: 555-867-5309
Still processing
Fireflies
My scythe Jack
Pawpaw grove
Loitering
Touched
Scat
Get thee to the nutrient cycle!
Pulling carrots
Filling the frame
Reckless air quotes
Judith Irene Gay, aged seventy-six today!
Rothko backboard
The Marfa lights
The carport
My Garden (book)
Black bumblebees!
Grown
Coco-baby
My birthday.

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