The Book of Delights by Ross Gay - 2019: Essays

Hardcover in Dust Jacket, NF/NF 274 pages. 100 brief essays by award-winning poet Ross Gay, a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among the often humorous, whimsical, poetic and philosophic delights he found are: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard during an airline flight, and silent acknowledgement of the only two black persons in a room. But Gay does not dismiss the complexities and terrors of living as a black American or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of his loved ones. A reflection on our shared bonds and the rewards that come a life seen through the eyes of a poet. From a nonsmoking home. Ships with Tracking Number.