Book of Delights
Essays
Published on 12. February 2019
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-61620-792-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 186 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61620-792-2 (9781616207922)
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In addition to The Book of Delights: Essays, Ross Gay is the author of three books of poetry, including Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Catalog was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, the Ohioana Book Award, the Balcones Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. He is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call It Ballin’ and founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a nonprofit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.