In Ross Gay's new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America's most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight.
For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the "nefarious" scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world-sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbour's fig tree-and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us.
The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savour and share.
作者简介
罗斯-盖伊是《纽约时报》畅销书作家,著有散文集《快乐之书》(The Book of Delights)和《煽动快乐》(Inciting Joy)以及四本诗集。他的《毫不掩饰的感激之情目录》获得了美国国家书评人协会奖和金斯利-塔夫茨诗歌奖,入围了美国国家图书奖决赛,并于 2022 年被提名为美国国家环境局 "大阅读 "书目;《拥抱》获得了 2021 年美国笔会让-斯坦因图书奖。盖伊是布卢明顿社区果园(Bloomington Community Orchard)的创始董事会成员,该果园是一个非营利性的免费水果换取食物正义和快乐的项目,他曾获得 Cave Canem、Bread Loaf 作家会议和古根海姆基金会的奖学金。他在印第安纳大学任教。
Ross Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2022 was named an NEA Big Read title; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. Gay is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.
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