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Joy: (n) a feeling of great pleasure and happiness QOTD: What incites your joy? Ross Gay's latest installment, Inciting Joy, is out now and it is a hit. I love what he has to say about joy always being associated with or the result of some great feat or endeavor or being entangled somehow with pain. He dares us to imagine a life where joy just naturally flows through us in every day life. He asks us to imagine joy and sorrow as partners. He dares to interrogate what incites joy. I'm already gushing and I haven't even finished yet. Thank you to @algonquinbooks for the gifted copy. 🌺 SYNOPSIS 🌺 An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights  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. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we expand it. 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. 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. #IncitingJoy #RossGay #books #tbr #bookstagram #reading #essays #bookphotography #bookworm #bookcommunity #bookreviewer #bookrecommendation #bookish #bookstagrammer #booklover #booksbooksbooks #joy #selfcare #BIPOCBookstagram #bibliophile (at Forest Avenue) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkMi6TrrUpW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=