Research Catalog

Title

Be holding : a poem / Ross Gay.

Author

Gay, Ross, 1974-

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

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Details

Description

ix, 109 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

Pitt poetry series.

Subject

• Erving, Julius > Poetry
• Erving, Julius
• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• Laudatory poetry.
• Free verse.
• Poetry
• Poetry.

Call Number

Sc D 21-280

ISBN

• 9780822966234
• 0822966239

OCLC

1194001965

Author

Gay, Ross, 1974- author.

Title

Be holding : a poem / Ross Gay.

Publisher

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Local Note

AUTH: INDIANA UNIVERSITY.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-280