Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Author: Ross Gay

Narrator: Ross Gay

Unabridged: 1 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2024


Synopsis

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucy on May 08, 2022

Ross Gay is so good that everyone inspired by him (and there are plenty) are also good.......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on June 16, 2024

I have nothing but unabashed gratitude for Ross Gay and these poems. The third collection from Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is filled with odes and gorgeous verse to catalog a lifetime of gratitude set against the darkness that life can bring if only to illuminate our way forward through......more

Goodreads review by Laura on November 19, 2015

I don't know when I last read a set of poems that managed to convey such intense joy. I love Gerard Manley Hopkins, and although the comparison is imperfect, I swear I still felt an echo of "The Windhover" in certain lines and stanzas, especially the title poem, which I love intensely. I think it wa......more

Goodreads review by Superstition on November 02, 2017

Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is an uplifting and therapeutic poetry collection. He embraces the small things that make life wonderful as he reminisces his past and childhood. His collection is imbued with beautiful imagery about the natural world; it is compellingly lyrical: There is, in......more

Goodreads review by Alice on July 10, 2016

I had quite high expectations for this, but I'm afraid I'm a bit disappointed. Though I found some of the sentences beautiful, especially those depicting nature, I couldn't find a personal connection. I was initially going to give this three stars, but after having thought about it for a few days, v......more