![]() ![]() Whether he is writing about racism or gardening or friendship or love or death, compassion and generosity hum underneath his words. That book got me through the early days of the pandemic, but here I want to recommend his 2015 book of poetry, entitled Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was a National Book Award finalist. You may have come across him in the last several years because his poem Small Needful Fact about Eric Garner’s work with the Horticultural Department made the rounds on the internet or because his 2019 book of essayettes entitled The Book of Delights made him a frequent voice on public radio. No one offers more comfort than poet Ross Gay. I also have read poetry for comfort during tough times. I recently moved from an apartment I had lived in for twenty years and in sifting through the wreckage, I learned that I have been writing poetry on and off my whole life without really realizing it. "My creative life is really informed by that community gesture of asking 'how do we care for our neighbors'.” – Ross Gay, 2020 ![]()
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