Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away--loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it--that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all--death, sorrow, loss--is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us. Ross Gay is the winner of the 2026 Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Paperback, 112 pp.