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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry | 2015 | Winner |
About This Book
Ross Gay's long-lined, digressive odes move through grief and abundance, celebrating the small commons of American life — gardens, fruit trees, neighbors — with exuberant formalism. Winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
About the Author
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Ross Gay is an American poet and essayist known for his expansive, joyful, formally innovative work that draws on questions of Black life, ecology, and American culture. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he holds a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in American Literature from Temple University. His poetry collection Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Read more →
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