Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays—the New York Times bestseller The Book of Delights, Inciting Joy, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights. He is an Orion contributing editor.
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After Trugoy: Reflections on De La Soul
AND SOMETIMES WE find ourselves weeping I found myself writing on the cover of a notebook as a title, pretty sure, for this musical inquiry, this inquiry on music that has Continue reading
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Ross Gay Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Orion contributing editor Ross Gay is a poet, essayist, professor, and devoted gardener. If you’ve Continue reading
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From Grief a Garden Grows
I pull into Black Oaks, weaving my car through the stands of shaggy oaks, and park just past a greenhouse. There, I make my way to a group of people chatting Continue reading
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Insurgent Hoop
NOW I’VE SKIPPED OVER a lot of the basketball books, a lot of the sports books, partly because they so often rehearse the same old dorkball bootstrap capitalist Darwinist fantasies, they Continue reading
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Red, Black, and Green
FIRST THINGS FIRST. If you don’t know this, you should: black people are doing significant work at this very moment all throughout the environmental movement. Despite this good work, it’s impossible Continue reading