Be holding : a poem / Ross Gay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gay, Ross, 1974- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Erving, Julius--Poetry.

Erving, Julius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 109 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

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.

Contents:

About Dr. J

Be Holding : A Poem

Acknowledgments

Image Credits.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822987826

0822987821