Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores fo r an intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the \;New Yor k Times \;bestselling author of \;The Book of Delights.&n bsp\;
\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, prize-winnin g poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for ea ch other\, especially during life&rsquo\;s inevitable hardships. Throughou t \;Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizin g that connection\, and also\, crucially\, how we expand it.
\nIn &l dquo\;We Kin&rdquo\; he thinks about the garden (especially around August\ , when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a laboratory of mutual aid\; in &ldquo\;Share Your Bucket&rdquo\; he explores skateboarding&rsquo\;s re clamation of public space\; he considers the costs of masculinity in &ldqu o\;Grief Suite&rdquo\;\; and in &ldquo\;Through My Tears I Saw\,&rdquo\; h e recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying.
\nIn an era when divisive voices take up so much air space\, \; Inciting Joy \;offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? Fu ll of energy\, curiosity\, and compassion\, \;Inciting Joy&nb sp\;is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers.
\n< span style="text-decoration: underline\;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR
\nRoss Gay \;is the \;New York Times \;bestsell ing author of \;The Book of Delights: Essays \;and \;four book s of poetry. His \;Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude \;won \;the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 \;Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award\; and \; Be Holding \;won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a&n bsp\;founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard\, \;a non-profit\, free-fruit-for-all food justice and \;joy \;project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, the Bread Loaf Writer&rsquo \;s Conference\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. \;He teaches at Indian a University.
\nA BOUT THE IN CONVERSATION PARTNER
\nClint Smith \ ;is a staff writer at \;The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrativ e nonfiction book\, \;How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the His tory of Slavery Across America\, which was a #1 \;New York Times \ ;bestseller and one of the \;New York Times \;Top Ten Books of 202 1. He is also the author of the poetry collection \;Counting Descent.& nbsp\;The book won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the B lack Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He has received fellowships from New America\, the Emer son Collective\, the Art For Justice Fund\, Cave Canem\, and the National Science Foundation. His writing has been published in \;The New Yorker \, The New York Times Magazine\, Poetry Magazine\, The Paris Review \; and elsewhere. Born and raised in New Orleans\, he received his B.A. in En glish from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard Univer sity. \;
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