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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Why I Garden

Why I Garden

Gay, Ross

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysGarden Writing

Publisher Price: $30.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 20, 2027

ISBN10: 1616207337
ISBN13: 9781616207335
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Apr 20 2027
Pages: 256
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
An exuberant, funny, and soulful meditation on the immense pleasures and the inevitable heartaches of gardening by the bestselling essayist and award-winning poet.

In Why I Garden, the author of The Book of Delights brings his keen observation and joyful spirit to his own backyard garden. But you don't have to be a gardener to lose yourself in Ross Gay's lyrical voice, his humor, and his original way of looking at the world.

There's the unabashed lustiness of morning glories, and hummingbirds swinging on the clothesline like an old married couple; the thud of pawpaws dropping, and the seductive centerfolds of seed catalogs. We encounter the kind of surprising and urgent connections we've come to expect from Gay: the 1983 Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers serve as a benchmark for a thriving, diverse garden; an old toilet bowl planted with flowers leads to a consideration of the war machine; and he wonders why prayer looks so much like digging potatoes.

Why I Garden is about gardening, but it's also about how we care for each other and this planet and beckons us to cherish the earthly delights that are all around us.

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