{"product_id":"the-book-of-more-delights-essays-1","title":"The Book of (More) Delights: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelight, it turns out, is inexhaustible. A year after his \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eBook of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e, Ross Gay returned to his daily practice — and found that wonder had not run dry. \u003ci\u003eThe Book of (More) Delights: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e is the luminous continuation of one of the most original ongoing literary projects in contemporary American writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis time Gay delights in the nostalgic rush of a song blasting from a passing car, the tiny dog he fell hard for, his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren, and the quiet pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menu. As always, the natural world is at the center: sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing from a crack in a cemetery wall, the shared bounty of a neighbor’s fig tree. These are small things. Gay knows they are small. And he insists, again, that they are everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers drawn to lyric nonfiction and contemplative essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of (More) Delights\u003c\/i\u003e is both a companion and a continuation — for those who finished the first volume and weren’t ready to leave, for nature lovers and gardeners, and for anyone who has learned, or is still learning, to pay attention to what brings them alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplore more from Ross Gay: Begin with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-book-of-delights-essays-1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e for the essay collection that started it all, or turn to \u003ca href=\"\/products\/aflame-learning-from-silence\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAflame: Learning from Silence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Pico Iyer for another meditation on the gifts found in careful, unhurried attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat You’ll Discover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA second year of Gay’s daily lyric essays — warmer, looser, and even more intimate than the first\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDelight in the natural world: hummingbirds, sweet potatoes, fig trees, and cemetery sunflowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGay’s humor and precision turned on the textures of everyday American life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA continuation of one of the most beloved essay projects in contemporary literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA volume to read slowly, share freely, and return to often\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoss Gay is a poet, essayist, and professor whose work has won the NBCC Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the American Book Award. He gardens in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches at Indiana University. \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and NPR favorite; \u003ci\u003eThe Book of (More) Delights\u003c\/i\u003e carries that spirit forward with even greater ease and affection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/b\u003e Readers who loved \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e and want more, nature lovers and gardeners, fans of lyric and contemplative nonfiction, those drawn to joy as a daily practice, readers of Katherine May or Pico Iyer, gift seekers looking for a book that is warm, brief, and deeply human, and anyone who believes that paying attention is its own form of prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuality hardcover edition | ISBN 9781643753096. Ross Gay’s \u003ci\u003eThe Book of (More) Delights\u003c\/i\u003e — a second year of wonder, as generous and alive as the world it celebrates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ross Gay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48108993118339,"sku":"BS-3QC-753096","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1583\/7571\/files\/9781643753096-HD.jpg?v=1788637067","url":"https:\/\/www.merceliarose.com\/products\/the-book-of-more-delights-essays-1","provider":"Mercelia Rose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}