There is much to take delight in, beginning with the miraculous accident of birth, his parents, he writes, a “black man, white woman, the year of Loving v. But then, he adds, so are pop music, books, gardening, and simple acts of kindness, all of which simple pleasures he chronicles in the “essayettes” that make up this engaging book. Gay-a poet whose last book, the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, bears the semantically aligned title Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015)-is fully aware that all is not well in the world: “Racism is often on my mind,” he writes by way of example.
A collection of affirmations, noncloying and often provocative, about the things that make justice worth fighting for and life worth living.
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