Inciting joy with Ross Gay

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Nearly every day for a year, American poet Ross Gay sat down and wrote about something that delighted him–from carrying a small tomato plant through an airport to playing a pickup basketball game.The result was his first nonfiction book, “The Book of Delights”, a collection of essays beloved by both critics and fans. These days, Ross is in pursuit of understanding another transcendent human emotion: joy. The author shares what his practice of seeking delight has taught him about life, writing and language, and why he thinks poetry is the best coach for philosophy, mindfulness and gratitude.

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0:38.0	On this show, we have a lot of guests
0:41.0	who explored new frontiers,
0:43.0	frontiers of viral detection or the cosmos.
0:47.0	This week's guest has made joy and delight
0:50.0	the object of his exploration.
0:53.0	Poet and assiast Ross Gay has turned that exploration
0:57.0	into a practice of identifying and sharing those joys
1:01.0	with the rest of us.
1:03.0	The delight of smiles when you take a tiny tomato plant
1:06.0	onto a plane,
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