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The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

The Book of (More) Delights: Essays - Hardcover

by Ross Gay
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ross GayPublish date:2023-09-19Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781643753096ISBN-10:1643753096UPC:9781643753096Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays, African American & Black, MemoirsSize:7.28 x 5.25 x 1.03 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCT5MCQN3P

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us.

In Ross Gay's new collection of small, daily wonders, 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 "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 neighbor's fig tree--and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us.

The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781643753096ISBN-10:1643753096UPC:9781643753096Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays, African American & Black, MemoirsSize:7.28 x 5.25 x 1.03 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCT5MCQN3P
Ross Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections The Book of Delights and 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, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2022 was named an NEA Big Read title; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. Gay is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.
Publisher: Algonquin Books

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