An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the author of The Book of Delights

Product Code: 8999
ISBN: 9781643753041
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Workman
Pages: 256
Published Date: 10/25/2022
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Price: $27.00

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross 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 expand it.

In “We Kin” he thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket” he explores skateboarding’s reclamation of public space; 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 air space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love? Full of energy, curiosity, and compassion, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers.


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Contents

The First Incitement

Through My Tears I Saw
(Death: The Second Incitement)

We Kin
(The Garden: The Third Incitement)

Out of Time
(Time: The Fourth Incitement)

Share Your Bucket!
(Skateboarding: The Fifth Incitement)

Baby, This Might Be You
(Laughter: The Sixth Incitement)

(Dis)alientation Machinery
(Losing Your Phone: The Seventh Incitement)

Free Fruit for All!
(The Orchard: The Eight Incitement)

Insurgent Hoop
(Pickup Basketball: The Ninth Incitement)

How Big the Boat
(The Cover: The Tenth Incitement)

Dispatch from the Ruins
(School: The Eleventh Incitement)

Went Free
(Dancing: The Twelfth Incitement)

Grief Suite
(Falling Apart: The Thirteenth Incitement)

Oh, My Heart
(Gratitude: The Fourteenth Incitement)

Acknowledgments

“Stunning…Gay’s curiosity is present on every page and his precise yet playful prose sparkles…This resonant, vivid meditation shouldn’t be missed.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Warm, candid … breezy and soulful… A pleasingly digressive and intimate memoir in essays." - Kirkus Reviews

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