Presenter of
the National Book Awards
Subscribe
to our newsletter
Subscribe to our newsletter
Presenter of
the National Book Awards
Subscribe
to our newsletter
Ross Gay is the author of three poetry collections: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude; Against Which; and Bringing the Shovel Down. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Orion, the Sun, and elsewhere. More about this author >
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away– loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it — that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.
In Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, the intricate delights and difficulties of our lives as well as the nitty-gritty majesty of the natural world are generously scrutinized. With the sumptuous clarity of a good quartet, Gay has composed a lyrical map of the mind’s ongoing scuffle with the heart. There’s humor here and tough-minded insight, along with an unflinching engagement with those wounds that won’t be healed—all of this beneath a rich vocal canopy whose central quality is tenderness.
