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Preface - Chapter 17

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Gay, Ross. The Book of Delights. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing, 2019. Kindle Edition.

• The Book of Delights is a collection of 102 essays written daily by poet and author Ross Gay, each about a moment of daily joy.

• In the Preface, Gay relates that a year prior in July he had an idea to write a daily passage about delight. He made up some basic rules for his experiment. He would write these entries by hand over the course of a year—from his forty-second birthday until his forty-third.

• Gay states that due to his profession as a poet and professor, some patterns and themes arise. Among them include travel, his mother, racism, kindness, politics, pop music, books, dreams, and his garden.

• The Preface concludes with the...

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