![]() ![]() ![]() Gay’s poems are left-hand justified, often composed of one rambling rose of a sentence that blooms gracefully across the pages, some with punctuation, others without, like single and double-flowering varietals. This is a garden of unrestrained pigment that grabs the reader at the gate with an invitation to meander the paths within. The cover art provides a hint of the tenor of work to be found within: riotous color, dripping next to impressionistic strokes of what could possibly be canna, stock, foxglove, and roses. Ross Gay is a professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, as well as a poet and gardener. There is lightness and generosity in these pages, like a long-needed exhalation when spring comes after a long winter. In his third volume of poetry, he writes of gardens with their seasons of fruition, hibernation, loss, and rebirth. Reading Ross Gay’s work is reason for exhilaration. Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series), 2015 ![]()
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