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1) Bringing the Shovel Down

Author

Gay, Ross

Series

Pitt Poetry

Language

English

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Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?

2) Catalog of unabashed gratitude

Author

Gay, Ross

Series

Pitt Poetry

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Language

English

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An Attitude of Gratitude

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away-- loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it -- that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.

3) The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

Author

Gay Ross

Language

English

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As Heard on NPR's This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book that celebrates ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers and the author of Inciting Joy, award-winning poet Ross Gay. Pre-order The Book of (More) Delights now, too!
“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the...

4) The book of delights

Author

Gay, Ross

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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"Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"--

5) Inciting joy: essays

Author

Gay, Ross

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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An Attitude of Gratitude

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"A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"--

6) Be holding: a poem

Author

Gay, Ross

Series

Pitt poetry

Language

English

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Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving--known as Dr. J--who dominated courts in the 1970s and '80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia '76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J's famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying...

7) The book of (more) delights

Author

Gay, Ross

Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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"A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"--

8) The language of trees: a rewilding of literature and landscape

Author

Holten, Katie

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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"Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost...

9) Virgin: Poems

Author

Sotelo, Analicia

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Pub. Date

2018

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo’s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.

In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity—of naiveté, of careless abandon—before sharply exploring the

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10) How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope

Author

Crews, James

Publisher

Storey Publishing, LLC

Pub. Date

2021

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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What the world needs now – featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet...

11) Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver

Author

Oliver, Mary

Publisher

Pushkin Industries

Pub. Date

2023

Language

English

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A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Sophia Bush featuring selections from the late poet's work, in her own voice, plus a tapestry of complementary voices reflecting on Oliver's legacy.

Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver is a first of its kind audio commemoration of one of the greatest poets in modern history. Actress and activist Sophia Bush

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Ross Gay

1) Bringing the Shovel Down

2) Catalog of unabashed gratitude

3) The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

4) The book of delights

5) Inciting joy: essays

6) Be holding: a poem

7) The book of (more) delights

8) The language of trees: a rewilding of literature and landscape

9) Virgin: Poems

10) How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope

11) Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver