
The Book of Delights
Essays
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Ross Gay
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Ross Gay
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.
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays - some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages - that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a Black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves.
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If you like short prose, interesting words and authenticity, this book is for you.
Absolutely delightful
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like poetry to lift
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Good for the soul. Good for the ears.
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Sigh :)
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Inspiring
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Will carry in my soul
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such a treat
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