Inciting Joy: Essays

Name: Inciting Joy: Essays
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by Ross Gay

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From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a "brilliant" intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate).

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author 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.

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.

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?

Publisher:: Algonquin Books
ISBN:: 9781643753959
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 272
Authors:: Ross Gay
Published Date:: 2024-10-08
Language:: English

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About Ross Gay

A professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington, Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD from Temple University. His debut collection, Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006), was followed by Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His essay collection The Book of Delights (Algonquin, 2019) was a New York Times bestseller. He is a founding member of the Bloomington Community Orchard.

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