![]() ![]() The power of community and the healing abilities of positive growth and shared love. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love? Full of energy, curiosity, and compassion, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers. In “We Kin” he thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a laboratory of mutual aid in “Share Your Bucket” he explores skateboarding’s reclamation of public space 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. ![]() Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we expand it. In 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. ![]() An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights ![]()
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