{"product_id":"the-book-of-more-delights","title":"The Book of (More) Delights","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781643756356\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Workman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e and award-winning poet Ross Gay, a fresh new volume of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e is back with a new record of small wonders-and it is exactly the book we need right now.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this second intimate collection of short, lyrical, genre-defying essays, again written daily over a year, one of America's most original and observant voices celebrates the ordinary, helping us see our extraordinary world anew. Among Ross Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: bonding with a pipsqueak of a puppy, observing how his mother bakes eighteen kinds of cookies before her grandchildren arrive, noticing the tenderness he feels when he sees an adult wearing braces, and the recognition that for him the preamble is often more delightful than the thing itself: \"Putting on your socks and tying up your shoes, and, if you're the type, filling up your water bottle and doing some light stretching, but skipping the walk entirely.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Gay, practicing delight is an act of defiance in an often unjust world, as necessary as breathing. Even as he acknowledges racism, consumerism, ecological devastation, and our individual sorrows-he shows us that the un-delights make the delights even more so. As always, Gay revels in natural world-a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, the garlic that grows abundantly in his garden (along with collards and kale leaves and purple osaka mustards, pineapple sage, swee","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41506918662277,"sku":"PR383229","price":48.8,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TIVZGARJQC9G.jpg?v=1769646758","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-book-of-more-delights","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}