# Inciting Joy: Essays - Hardcover

by **Ross Gay** (Author)

**From Ross Gay, the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Book of Delights,_ comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection. "BRILLIANT." --Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate**

Pre-order Gay's next literary gem, _The Book of (More) Delights_, coming this September, too!

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships. Throughout _Inciting Joy_, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it.

In "We Kin," Gay thinks about the garden (es­pecially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in "Share Your Bucket," he explores skateboard­ing's reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in "Grief Suite"; and in "Through My Tears I Saw," he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying.

In an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, _Inciting Joy_ offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?

Taking a clear-eyed look at injustice, political polarization, and the destruction of the natural world, Gay shows us how we might resist, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild, unpredictable, transgressive, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact, it just might help us survive.

"A gift that's meant to be shared . . . \[This book\] inspires us to look beyond the miseries of our era to envision a more welcoming future."―_The Washington Post_

### Author Biography

Ross Gay is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Book of Delights: Essays_ and four books of poetry. His _Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude_ won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and _Be Holding_ won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.  

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN

**Publication Date:** October 25, 2022

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