![]() ![]() More than anything other subject, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world - his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis. ![]() But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders.Īmong Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an aeroplane, the silent nod of acknowledgement between the only two black people in a room. 'The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry, lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties. The New York Times bestselling essay collection about finding delight every day of your life, as featured recently on THIS AMERICAN LIFE. ![]()
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He is the kin of the jungle’s lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroë and Ophir. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. ![]() ![]() Sagan played a leading role in NASA's Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to other planets. The film came out after Sagan's death, following a 2-year struggle with a bone marrow disease. ![]() With his wife, Ann Druyan, he was co-producer of the popular motion picture, " Contact," which featured a feminist, atheist protagonist played by Jodie Foster (1997). Sagan was author, co-author or editor of 20 books, including The Dragons of Eden (1977), which won a Pulitzer, Pale Blue Dot (1995) and The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark (1996), his hardest-hitting on religion. A book of the same title came out in 1980, and was on The New York Times bestseller list for 7 weeks. A great popularizer of science, Sagan produced the PBS series, " Cosmos," which was Emmy and Peabody award-winning, and was watched by 500 million people in 60 countries. He became professor of astronomy and space science and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, and co-founder of the Planetary Society. 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