TY - BOOK AU - Gay,Ross TI - Inciting joy: essays SN - 9781643753041 PY - 2022/// CY - Chapel Hill, North Carolina PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill KW - Joy KW - Happiness KW - Kindness KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - The first incitement --; Through my tears I saw (death: the second incitement) --; We kin (the garden: the third incitement) --; Out of time (time: the fourth incitement) --; Share your bucket! (skateboarding: the fifth incitement) --; Baby, this might by you. (laughter: the sixth incitement) --; (Dis)alienation machinery (losing your phone: the seventh incitement) --; Free fruit for all! (the orchard: the eighth incitement) --; Insurgent hoop (pickup basketball: the ninth incitement) --; How big the boat (the cover: the tenth incitement) --; Dispatch from the ruins (school: the eleventh incitement)--; Went Free (Dancing: The Twelfth Incitement)--; Grief suite (falling apart: the thirteenth incitement) --; Oh, my heart (gratitude: the fourteenth incitement) N2 - "A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"--; Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships. He turns his mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs to the garden and the natural world. What might be possible if we turn our attention from divisive issues to what bring us together, to what we love? -- adapted from jacket ER -