Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude: A Manual of Argentine Fictions (Pitt Poetry Series)
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Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category. Winner of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, poetry category.Finalist for the 2015 NAACP Image Awards in Poetry. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away - loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it - that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all - death, sorrow, loss - is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us. Review: Restores my faith in the language, if not humanity as well - Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay (University of Pittsburg, PA: 2015), 102 pp. I know I have several friends who listen to On Being on public radio every Sunday morning. For many of us, those interviews are "church." So a couple of weeks ago, Krista Tippett interviewed Ross Gay, an urban activist whose beliefs and service to the community are focussed around community gardens. He's also a poet. Here's where I recommend his work to both On Being fans and my fellow poets. Ross is a master of the ecstatic, exuberant poem. I know many poets who attempt this form of expression but miss because the poem is coming from a much too self-conscious place. The trick is being in absolute command of the elements of the poetic craft and then sweeping them from the table, getting everything out of the way of the poem itself. (Revision comes later, of course.) And that's why I'm here to praise the poems in this book. I've never read better in English. This is amazing work. Treat yourself. If you've watched a flock of millions of birds in the sunset, or sat in awe as witness of dervishes twirling between heaven and earth, or been overcome at a symphony performance where everyone on stage is giving their all to their part and it boils up and out of the top of your head in one ecstatic geyser...you have experienced what is going on in the poet's language here. Review: Brilliant, Ross Gay! - Devour this book of poems. They are alive, filled with joy and sensual pleasure. Thank you, Ross Gay, for this collection!
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J**T
Restores my faith in the language, if not humanity as well
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay (University of Pittsburg, PA: 2015), 102 pp. I know I have several friends who listen to On Being on public radio every Sunday morning. For many of us, those interviews are "church." So a couple of weeks ago, Krista Tippett interviewed Ross Gay, an urban activist whose beliefs and service to the community are focussed around community gardens. He's also a poet. Here's where I recommend his work to both On Being fans and my fellow poets. Ross is a master of the ecstatic, exuberant poem. I know many poets who attempt this form of expression but miss because the poem is coming from a much too self-conscious place. The trick is being in absolute command of the elements of the poetic craft and then sweeping them from the table, getting everything out of the way of the poem itself. (Revision comes later, of course.) And that's why I'm here to praise the poems in this book. I've never read better in English. This is amazing work. Treat yourself. If you've watched a flock of millions of birds in the sunset, or sat in awe as witness of dervishes twirling between heaven and earth, or been overcome at a symphony performance where everyone on stage is giving their all to their part and it boils up and out of the top of your head in one ecstatic geyser...you have experienced what is going on in the poet's language here.
C**E
Brilliant, Ross Gay!
Devour this book of poems. They are alive, filled with joy and sensual pleasure. Thank you, Ross Gay, for this collection!
N**E
Five Stars
Beyond.
T**N
beautiful, compelling, and rich with meaning
Ross Gay is an original and profound poet who finds the sheer beauty in ordinary things and seemingly ordinary people. Read aloud, it is even better. I have a group of friends, a rotating cast of characters, who get together in own yard to read poetry together, some of it their own, but most of it favorites that people have found. It seems like a different person each time brings Ross Gay's Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, and usually picks a different poem to read, and they are all gems. A poet of real genius.
L**D
Stunning
The cover drew me - exquisitely done watercolor. Once inside, the poems are brilliant, poignant. My first Ross Gay poetry and I'm hooked. Thank you for sharing your beautiful words with the world.
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