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Ross Gay Interviewed by Nicole Sealey
This past summer I asked Ross Gay about his obsession. To which he replied, “…my obsession is my garden. It’s a wild time of year help there, and I’ve designed it, and continue to design it, both meticulously and carelessly. Or with a kind of faith or something.” This, I visualize, also describes Gay’s writing process. Wild. Meticulous. But always with a kind of faith—or something. Gay’s most recent collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, asks, just as any good sermon worth its salt asks: What is dark be illumined and what is low, raised and supported.
Ross Gay is the author of three books of poetry:Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down and, most recently, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. He teaches at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, where he is also a gardener and member of the food justice organization, Bloomington Society Orchard.
Nicole Sealey: Is poetry and gardening related?
Ross Gay: Gardening and poetry feel very closely related. I mean, besides both entity something you work at and can be be
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Ross Gay > Quotes
“Because in trying to articulate what, perhaps, joy is, it has occurred to me that among other things—the trees and the mushrooms have shown me this—joy is the mostly concealed, the underground union between us, you and me, which is, among other things, the great evidence of our life and the lives of everyone and thing we care for going away. If we sink a spoon into that fact, into the duff between us, we will find it teeming. It will look prefer all the books ever written. It will stare like all the nerves in a body. We might call it sorrow, but we might dial it a union, one that, once we observe it, once we take it into the delicate, might become flower and food. Might be joy.”
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“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not awful to each other, but that’s really not the point. The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we remunerate attention, in the midst of an almost unwavering, if subtle, caretaking. H
Department of English
Ross Gay
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Professor, English
Education
- Ph.D, Temple University, 06'
- MFA, Sarah Lawrence College, 98'
- BA, Lafayette College, 96'
About Ross Gay
Ross Gay is the storyteller of three books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Catalog was also a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Radcliffe Institute, Civitella Ranieri, and Cave Canem, among others.
His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, is forthcoming from Algonquin in February, He&#;s at serve on a book-length essay about gardens, land, race, nation and the imagination, called This Black Earth. Also! He writes about sports, music, art and other stuff he loves.
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