{"product_id":"inciting-joy-essays","title":"Inciting Joy: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Memoir\/ Nonfiction | Boston Globe Best Books of 2022 | Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2022 | Shelf Awareness Best Adult Books of 2022 | Salon.com Favorite Books of 2022 | San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of 2022 | BookPage Best Audiobooks of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It's impossible to read [these essays] without feeling a shift in your awareness of joy and its unexpected possibilities.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 \u003ci\u003eInciting Joy\u003c\/i\u003e, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, \u003ci\u003e Inciting Joy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoss Gay\u003c\/strong\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and four books of poetry. His \u003ci\u003eCatalog of Unabashed Gratitude \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and \u003ci\u003eBe Holding \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ross Gay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49656656331037,"sku":"9781643753959","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781643753959.jpg?v=1738962754","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/inciting-joy-essays","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}