Be Holding: A Poem

Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein AwardWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry Be Holding is a love song...
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Author: Ross Gay
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Language: English
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Be Holding: A Poem by Gay, Ross

Be Holding: A Poem

$44.00

Be Holding: A Poem

$44.00
Author: Ross Gay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein AwardWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry
Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving--known as Dr. J--who dominated courts in the 1970s and '80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia '76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J's famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. Be Holding wonders how the imagination, or how our looking, might make us, or bring us, closer to each other. How our looking might make us reach for each other. And might make us be reaching for each other. And how that reaching might be something like joy.

Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/08/2020
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780822966234


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2020
Shelf Awareness 09/22/2020
Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 89

About the Author
Ross Gay teaches poetry at Indiana University and is the author of the poetry collections Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens (with Aimee Nezhukumatathil), River (with Rose Wehrenberg), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, and the essay collection The Book of Delights.

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