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Author Gay, Ross, 1974- author.

Title Be holding : a poem / Ross Gay
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 109 pages) : illustrations
Series Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
Contents About Dr. J -- Be Holding : A Poem -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Erving, Julius -- Poetry
SUBJECT Erving, Julius fast
Subject POETRY / General
Genre/Form Electronic books
poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822987826
0822987821