Description: Title: Horsepower: Poems Author: Priest, Joy Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 88 Dimensions: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d Product Weight: 0.3 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780822966197 Priest's debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational. Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self--a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky's world-famous horseracing track--before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. Out of a space that is at once southern and urban, violent and beautiful, racially-charged and working-class, she attempts to transcend her social and economic circumstances. Across the collection, Priest writes a horse that acts as a metaphysical engine of flight, showing us how to throw off the harness and sustain wildness. Unlike the traditional Bildungsroman, Priest presents a non-linear narrative in which the speaker lacks the freedom to come of age naively in the urban South, and must instead, from the beginning, possess the wisdom of "the horses & their restless minds." Authorized Dealer Ships Fast From The USA Stock Photo - Actual Cover May Vary Hassle-Free 30 Day Returns
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Book Title: Horsepower : Poems
Number of Pages: 68 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Topic: American / African American
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 5 oz
Author: Joy Priest
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
