{"product_id":"inciting-joy-essays-hardcover","title":"Inciting Joy: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ross Gay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlgonquin Books \u003c\/span\u003e(2022)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Inciting Joy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn “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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eInciting Joy\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoffers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTaking 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInciting Joy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a book that will break your heart. Ross Gay will break your heart. He will break it and advocate for breaking it over and over. Why? So we can choose our life, our survival, our full humanity. Inciting Joy is brilliant because it’s not just a book; it’s proof that the way we carve out room for joy is by acknowledging our constant teacher: sorrow.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e–Ada Limón\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e“Ross Gay has become a sort of pied piper for joy. He studies it in his own life, and beautifully writes both of its complexity—how one must welcome sorrow to truly feel joy’s expansive width—and of its simplicity…”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e–BOMB Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UCHGP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40234823647331,"sku":"9781643753041","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/products\/image_f20283bd-13ab-40a3-b32d-e65ac734fb38.jpg?v=1673811818","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/inciting-joy-essays-hardcover","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}