![]() ![]() ![]() His delights are wide-ranging and unrestrained, the greater of them often interrupted by smaller ones in a chain of digressions. In Gay’s ecumenical view, delight is found in the poignant and the loving, the light and the shadows, and the intentional process of tuning in to all the places-expected and unexpected-where it may reside. ![]() One of the shorter essays, “Lily on the Pants,” is prayer, hymn, sermon, and benediction, all in one go. It’s filled to the brim with spirit and the temporal allegiance with dailiness that abides at the root of mortality and spiritual practice alike. It’s hard not to reach for religious language when describing Gay’s work. WRIGHT once wrote it was her “confirmed bias that poets remain the most ‘stunned by existence,’ the most determined to redeem the world in words.” In The Book of Delights, a yearlong experiment in cultivating delight through daily essays, poet and writer Ross Gay beckons readers to linger with the beauty of the world and his belief in the human desire to conspire in that beauty by reorienting the quotidian to joy’s robust configurations. ![]()
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