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Book

Inciting joy : essays

Author

Ross Gay

Call Number

  • 814 G2857 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.

Physical Description

248 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"--

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 by you. (laughter: the sixth incitement)
  • (Dis)alienation machinery (losing your phone: the seventh incitement)
  • Free fruit for all! (the orchard: the eighth 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).

Subjects

Genres

Essays.