Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Gay's poems burst forth in leggy, unexpected ways, zooming in on legs furred with pollen or soil breast-stroking into the xylem. Gay's praise is Whitmanesque, full of manure, mulberry-stained purple bird poop, dirty clothes and hangovers, but also the pleasure of bare feet, of pruning a peach tree, of feeding a neighbor.
This book, which so beautifully celebrates, no revels in, the poet's relationship to the earth, to his garden, to the people of his community, to family—I want to suggest in this national moment, it strikes me as breath.
...these simple, joyful poems read like a litany of what's good in the world.