The Book of Delights

The hypnotic movements of a praying mantis. A friend's unabashed use of air quotes. Cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane. In The Book of Delights, one of our most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. While never dismissing the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a Black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves, award-winning poet Ross Gay gives us a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight. ---from the back cover