Be Holdg — ROSS GAY

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S BE HOLDG
• ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
• BE HOLDG: WH ROSS GAY
• POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW

ROSS GAY

Through a kd of lyric rearch, or lyric medatn, Ross Gay nnects Dr. And how that reachg might be somethg like & Reviews“The brilliant fourth book om Gay... ”— Publishers Weekly starred review“Ross Gay’s work is not only celebratory.

”—RHINO“In turng an stance of athletic prows and grace to an expansive metaphoric visn, Gay pulls off a syntactil tour force.

”—Baltimore Art“Gay’s poem theoriz an ethics that is pably polil, and s ebullient gratu, fore and aft, reads not jt as an overflow of thankfulns but as a ncrete practice of the ethics Gay suggts. Ross Gay tak one fluid human gture and through expands the lungs of personal and munal history so they might hold all joy, terror, and vlence of this world.

WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY

In this terrible era, Ross Gay has wrten a book that breath this broken world and then returns to so we might breathe too. Ross Gay has once aga proven himself one of our greatt poets. Aga and aga, the betiful note he holds and hands, that’s what Ross Gay be sayg.

ROSS GAY’S BE HOLDG

The brilliant fourth book om Gay... Ross Gay teach poetry at Indiana Universy and is the thor of the poetry llectns Agast Which, Brgg the Shovel Down, Lace and Pyre: Letters om Two Garns (wh Aimee Nezhumatathil), River (wh Rose Wehrenberg), Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, and the say llectn The Book of Delights.

ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

“Be Holdg” om the book Be Holdg, by Ross Gay, © 2020.

BE HOLDG: WH ROSS GAY

” In Be Holdg, a masterful, book-length poem wrten stream-of-nscns uplets, Ross Gay wants his rears to know that Juli Ervg – aka Doctor J – was one of those athlet.

POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW

Early on, Gay seems to be wrg an extend o to “The Doctor, ” but the poet tak advantage of Ervg’s super-human body ntrol and hang-time while fishg The Lay-Up (hoops’ fans love the signatns: Michael Jordan gave The Shot; LeBron gave The Block) – a tly amazg move durg the 1980 playoffs that would have ma Isaac Newton doubt the ratnal laws of the universe – to ntextualize Ervg’s greatns. So do Gay. Wrers n also transcend the laws of time and space, and regnizg that “nothg happens/only when happens” Gay is quick and keen to make nnectns between his prent obssns, such as this YouTube basketball footage and the past – the historil past (noddg obliquely to the profound ristance of the Flyg Igbo), to sharecropper anctors and, ultimately, to his parents.