Inciting Joy
Autor Ross Gayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2024
From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection.
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.
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. 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?
"Brilliant. Inciting Joy is a book that will break your heart." -Ada Limón, US poet laureate
"A gift that's meant to be shared." -The Washington Post
"It's impossible to read [these essays] without feeling a shift in your awareness of joy and its unexpected possibilities." -The Boston Globe
Winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Memoir/ Nonfiction
Boston Globe Best Books
Publishers Weekly Best Books
Shelf Awareness Best Adult Books
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1643753959
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 138 x 205 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Descriere
'Punchy and compassionate' OBSERVER
A collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships.
In "We Kin" he thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in "Share Your Bucket" he explores skate-boarding's reclamation of public space; 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 air space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: what might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together? Full of energy, curiosity, and compassion, it is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers.