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Be Holding: A PoemBe 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
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.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/08/2020
ISBN: 9780822966234
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.40d
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★★★★★ 5
Very good for learning about feelings
Format: Hardcover
My daughter loves this book very much, it’s very helpful when it comes to feelings and expressions
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Definitely recommend this!
Format: Kindle
This is a wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated story about a boy teaching others to be kind. There are many examples of being kind with even more suggestions at the end of the book. We ALL need to be kind to others because the world is a better place to be if we respect others and are nice to them. Being mean or selfish diminishes us and makes the world more inhospitable.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2025
★★★★★ 5
11/10 would buy again for my sped-classroom
Format: Audiobook
11/10, just but it its great for all ages.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Feelings
Format: Paperback
Written well but for age of lower level for understanding and attention
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Good reading
Format: Hardcover
How could you go wrong with a book like this? Great for kids and adults alike
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2026