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Inciting Joy: Essays

Inciting Joy: Essays

Gay, Ross

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1643753045
ISBN13: 9781643753041
Publisher: Algonquin Books Of Chapel
Published: Oct 25 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
BRILLIANT. --Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate

An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights.

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it.

In We Kin, Gay thinks about the garden (es­pecially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in Share Your Bucket, he explores skateboard­ing's reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in Grief Suite; and in Through My Tears I Saw, he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying.

In an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?

Taking a clear-eyed look at injustice, political polarization, and the destruction of the natural world, Gay shows us how we might resist, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild, unpredictable, transgressive, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact, it just might help us survive.

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