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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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh PA
University of Pittsburgh Press
2020.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Horsepower -- I -- American Honey -- Blue Heart Baby -- My Father Teaches Me How to Disappear -- The Payphone -- All the Men that Summer Who Said I Love You -- Elegy for Kentucky -- Dear Aunt Louise, Muh -- II -- Winning Colors, 1988 -- Derby -- Quilt 'n' Frames -- The Wheat from the Chaff -- Self-Portrait as Disney Princess -- Nightstick -- My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away -- Abecedarian for Alzheimer's -- My Father Teaches Me about the Bees -- Ode to Hushpuppy -- Little Lamp -- III -- My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol -- Ghost Ride | |
| 505 | 0 | |a God of the Motorcade (2005) -- In the City -- Rodeo -- Junker -- Girl 6 -- Upon Reading James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks -- Menace -- No Country for Black Boys -- Drift -- Ode to My First Car, 1988 Cutlass Supreme Classic 307 V8, Dual Exhaust -- Pegasus -- Notes -- Acknowledgments | |
| 520 | |a 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." FROM "RODEO" The four-wheeler is a chariot. Horse-wraiths Kicking up a plume of spirits in the dirt behind us. Her arms kudzu around my middle. Out here, In the desert, everything is invisible. Only the locusts' flat buzz gives Them away. Everything native & quieting Perennial & nighthawk black As we ride through: the cowgirls, The witch & the water sky-mirror-split, The severity of squall lines. Also, the lips Parting air like lightning & the girl Blowing bubbles--in each one a rainbow. | ||
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