"I have inherited this sense that seriousness does not necessarily go with grief, or seriousness does not necessarily go with joy, which to me is not glee, actually. Joy is this very complex, full, rigorous emotion. But yeah, I think the fact that I felt like I was being a little transgressive by titling it that indicates at least something about the way that I’ve come up in contemporary poetry."
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On gratitude in poetry in “The Terrible and the Possible: An Interview with Ross Gay” in Los Angeles Review of Books (2016 Nov 11)
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