Ross Gay: A Small Needful Fact | Black Writers Matter

Get away [garbled] for what? Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today. Why would you…? Everyone standing here will tell you I didn’t do nothing. I did not sell nothing. Because everytime you see me, you want to harass me. You want to stop me [garbled] Selling cigarettes. I’m minding my business, officer, I’m minding my business. Please just leave me alone. I told you the last time, please just leave me alone. please please, don’t touch me. Do not touch me. [garbled] I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. – Eric Garner’s Final Words († July 17, 2014)

About Ross Gay
African-American poet Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He is the author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award; Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011); and Against Which (Cavankerry Press, 2006). He is also the co-author of the chapbooks Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens (with Aimee Nezhukumatathil) and River (with Richard Wehrenberg, Jr.).

Check out his performances:
To the Mulberry Tree: https://youtu.be/jzLx2aRNTRU
Catalog of Unabashed Graditude: https://youtu.be/uURnrX_-v6o

Check out his publications:
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23705600
Bringing the Shovel Down: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9913131
Against Which: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890871

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