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Ross Gay Quotes

born 1974 United States

Ross Gay (born August 1, 1974) is an American poet and professor.

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One is that I’m the first reader, and so I’m always writing these poems to myself, and my self — my self as a reader — is someone who wants to be transformed in the process of reading poems. I don’t want to read a poem that I already know.

I was definitely feeling alienated in various ways, and feeling some unarticulated rage and sorrow about a number of things. Once I got introduced to the right poems, I became aware of maybe a way to express those things, articulate them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ross Gay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.