His third collection of poetry A Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude (2015) focuses on the themes of planting and gardening. ???This is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard,??? he says, ???those places where all???death, sorrow, loss???is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.??? - See more at http://www.jmu.edu/events/furiousflower/2015/04/01-ross-gay.shtml.