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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Jean Stein Book Award | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
Ross Gay's book-length poem meditates on Julius Erving's famous 1980 layup, weaving together basketball, joy, ecology, and Blackness in a single extended lyric. Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.
About the Author
Ross GayUS
Ross Gay is an American poet and essayist known for his expansive, joyful, formally innovative work that draws on questions of Black life, ecology, and American culture. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he holds a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in American Literature from Temple University. His poetry collection Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Read more →
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