Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Pitt Poetry Series Gay Ross 1974

Jun 27, 2026

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude presents Ross Gay’s poems celebrated for their fearless range of emotions and vivid musicality. The collection moves through praise and lamentation, elegy and elation, and sustains an expansive attention to everyday abundance. Earth’s gifts—fruits, blooms, meals, insects, water, conversations, trees, embraces, and helping hands—form recurring lyric and narrative scenes. Even amid grief and mortality, the poems balance urgency with tenderness, offering inimitable compassion for a wounded world.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages116

Reading Time2 h 59 min

Additional praise for Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Contents

To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian I

Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt

Ode to the Flute

Burial

Patience

Ode to the Puritan in Me

Feet

Smear the Queer

To My Best Friend's Big Sister

FAQs

What emotional range characterizes the poems in Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude?

The poems traverse the full alphabet of emotions, shifting from anger to zest and moving between racy, rollicking, reflective, and more surprising moods.

How does the collection relate abundance to life and death?

The poems function as celebrations of earth’s abundance—its fruits, blooms, conversations, and helping hands—while still speaking directly to death and the grief that can accompany it.

What recurring focus appears across the book’s subject matter?

Recurring attention centers on everyday and natural wonders, including trees, water, insects, food, embraces, and intimate gestures of care.

Jun 27, 2026

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