The Book of Delights

Essays

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The Book of Delights

By: Ross Gay

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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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Americas

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Essays

Social Sciences

United States

Nonfiction

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A thought-provoking, tender, honest, joyful journey through Ross Gay’s year of enquiry and sharing of his delights. I would highly recommend this thank you