LEADER 02053nam 2200409 450 001 9910794361503321 005 20211105213020.0 010 $a0-8229-8782-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011389369 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6308745 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011389369 100 $a20201225h20202020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBe holding $ea poem /$fRoss Gay 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 109 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aPitt poetry series 311 $a0-8229-6623-9 327 $aAbout Dr. J -- Be Holding : A Poem -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits. 330 $aBe Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving--known as Dr. J--who dominated courts in the 1970s and '80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia '76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J's famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. Be Holding wonders how the imagination, or how our looking, might make us, or bring us, closer to each other. How our looking might make us reach for each other. And might make us be reaching for each other. And how that reaching might be something like joy.$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aPitt poetry series. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century 615 0$aAmerican poetry 676 $a811.6 700 $aGay$b Ross$f1974-$01500740 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794361503321 996 $aBe holding$93727555 997 $aUNINA