Be Holding: A Poem (Pitt Poetry)

by Ross Gay

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Winner of PEN America Jean Stein Award

Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Be Holding 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.
  • ISBN10 0822966239
  • ISBN13 9780822966234
  • Publish Date 28 March 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 88
  • Language English