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01903aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 9C0A58524F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210105012357 008 200909s2020 paua 000 p eng d 020 $a 0822966239 020 $a 9780822966234 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3607.A9857 $b B45 2020 100 1 $a Gay, Ross, $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a Be holding : $b a poem / $c Ross Gay. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh, Pa. : $b University of Pittsburgh Press, $c [2020] 300 $a ix, 109 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Pitt poetry series. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Erving, Julius $v Poetry. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Laudatory poetry. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Free verse. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft. 830 0 $a Pitt poetry series. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403012853.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014923.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210105034023.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C0A58524F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search