Summary
"In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay's funny, p... Full description
- My birthday, kinda
- Inefficiency
- Flower in the curb
- Blowing it off
- Hole in the head
- Remission still
- Praying mantis
- The negreeting
- The high-five from strangers, etc.
- Writing by hand
- Transplanting
- Nicknames
- But, maybe ...
- "Joy is such a human madness"
- House party
- Hummingbird
- Just a dream
- That's Some Bambi Shit" ...
- The irrepressible: The gratitudes
- Tap tap
- Coffee without the saucer
- Lily on the pants
- Sharing a bag
- Umbrella in the cafeĢ
- Beast mode
- Airplane rituals
- Weirdly untitled
- Pecans
- The do-over
- Infinity
- Ghost
- Note bene
- "Love Me in a Special Way"
- "Stay," by Lisa Loeb
- Stacking delights
- Donny Hathaway on Pandora
- "To Spread the Sweetness of Love"
- Baby, baby, baby
- "REPENT OR BURN"
- Giving my body to the cause
- Among the rewards of my sloth ...
- Not Grumpy Cat
- Some stupid shit
- Not only ...
- Micro-gentrification: WE BUY GOLD
- Reading palms
- The sanctity of trains
- Bird feeding
- Kombucha in a mid-century glass
- Hickories
- Annoyed no more
- Toto
- Church poets
- Public lying down
- Babies, seriously
- "My Life, My Life, My Life, My Life in the Sunshine"
- Incorporation
- Botan rice candy
- Understory
- "Joy is Such a Human Madness": The duff between us
- "It's Just the Day I'm Having" ...
- The purple cornets of spring
- The volunteer
- Fishing an eyelash: Two or three cents on the virtues of the poetry reading
- Found things
- Found things (2)
- Cuplicking
- Bobblehead
- The jenky
- the crow's ablutions
- Flowers in the hands of statues
- An abundance of public toilets
- The wave of unfamiliars
- Not for nothing
- Bindweed ... delight?
- Dickhead 200
- Ambiguous signage sometimes
- Heart to heart
- Caution: Bees on bridge
- Tomato on board
- Purple-handed
- Name: Kayte Young: phone number: 555-867-5309
- Still processing
- Fireflies
- My scythe Jack
- Pawpaw grove
- Loitering
- Touched
- Scat
- Get thee to the nutrient cycle!
- Pulling carrots
- Filling the frame
- Reckless air quotes
- Judith Irene Gay, aged seventy-six today!
- Rothko backboard
- The Marfa lights
- The carport
- My Garden (book)
- Black bumblebees!
- Grown
- Coco-baby
- My birthday.