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The book of delights / Ross Gay.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gay, Ross, 1974- author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Standardized Title:
Essays. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gay, Ross, 1974-.
Gay, Ross.
Life.
Joy.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2019]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
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 café
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.
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781616208905
1616208902
Publisher Number:
99982941748
40028872074
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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