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The language of grief, with writers Ross Gay and Chloe Honum

The language of grief, with writers Ross Gay and Chloe Honum

Life Examined

September 9, 202352m 0s

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Ross Gay, poet, essayist, and author of Inciting Joy, shares how losing his father impacted not only his writing, but more or less everything else that he now does. Witnessing his own sorrow, Gay says, was both terrifying and a revelation: “If you can't be close to your sorrow, then you're gonna miss your life.



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