In the spring of 2021, the book won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, with the judges hailing it as “a wondrous, profound exploration of how much captured moments in time can mean.” J” Erving to illuminate the forces that propel Black flight amid the legacies of terror and death. Ross Gay’s Be Holding, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2020, is a stunning book-length poem that focuses on a famous move by basketball legend Julius “Dr.
