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Автор: Gay Ross
Название: The Book of Delights: Essays
ISBN: 9781616207922
Издательство: Algonquin Books
Классификация:

Автобиографии: общее жизнеописание

Мемуары

Литературные эссе

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

Ум, тело, дух: мысли и практика

ISBN-10: 1616207922
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 12.02.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 138 x 186 x 30
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Ross Gays eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us. --Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate

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 Gays The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book 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. Among Gays funny, poetic, philosophical delights: the way Botan Rice Candy wrappers melt in your mouth, the volunteer crossing guard with a pronounced tremor whom he imagines as a kind of boat-woman escorting pedestrians across the River Styx, a friends unabashed use of air quotes, pickup basketball games, the silent nod of acknowledgment between black people. And more than any other subject, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world--his garden, the flowers in the sidewalk, the birds, the bees, the mushrooms, the trees.

This is not a book of how-to or inspiration, though it could be read that way. Fans of Roxane Gay, Maggie Nelson, and Kiese Laymon will revel in Gays voice, and his insights. The Book of Delights is about our connection to the world, to each other, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. Gays pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.

The Book of Delights: Essays, Gay Ross