02053nam 2200409 450 991082506930332120211105213020.00-8229-8782-1(CKB)4100000011389369(MiAaPQ)EBC6308745(EXLCZ)99410000001138936920201225h20202020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBe holding a poem /Ross GayPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (ix, 109 pages) illustrationsPitt poetry series0-8229-6623-9 About Dr. J -- Be Holding : A Poem -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits.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.Pitt poetry series.American poetry21st centuryAmerican poetry811.6Gay Ross1974-1651274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825069303321Be holding4057413UNINA