Horsepower: Poems - Paperback
by Joy Priest
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822966197ISBN-10:822966190UPC:9780822966197Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCYYHGKNCJ
Horsepower: Poems
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,...
Series: Pitt Poetry
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822966197ISBN-10:822966190UPC:9780822966197Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCYYHGKNCJ
Joy Priest is a writer from Louisville, KY. Her first book, HORSEPOWER (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), was selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of the 2020 Kunitz Prize and her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, APR, The Atlantic, Poetry Northwest, and Poets & Writers, among others....
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
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