Winner of PEN America Jean Stein AwardThrough 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.
Be Holding - Ross Gay
Price £14
ISBN: 9780822966234
Pub: University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub Date: 28th Mar 2021
Format: Paperback
Extent: 88 pp
POETRY collection