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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
My daughter likes it
Format: Paperback
I bought this book for my reluctant to read 3rd grader. She reads it without me having to tell her to read, and is now carrying it in her backpack to school.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Captured a reluctant readers attention
Format: Kindle
We downloaded this book this morning for the Kindle. My daughter is a reluctant chapter book reader, but she saw the cover and was hooked. She loves cats. She read the whole book independently in one sitting and then started rereading it!
I think reading it on the Kindle helped because it gave her percentages of her progress and made her more motivated to finish it!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Cute, funny, and purrfect
Format: Paperback
My daughter and I have been reading this book and have had lots of laughs. We love Gray's personality 😆 It's so fun that it's intertwined with the Unicorn and Sprinkles books we've caught all the hints and when things have happened in the other books. My daughter hopes there will be more books for this series!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Right level
Format: Kindle
Easy to read. Was the right balance of chapter book with minimal pictures that helped my 7 year old stay engaged without needing a picture on every page. My reader made connection of characters/events from other stories by same author.
Review from 7 year old: "Liked that it was a cat with sunglasses."
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Love it
Format: Kindle
I love the way all the books are intertwined. Diane Alber is great. My 4 year old grandson loves her books alms can remember them!
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Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2025