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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Priest, Joy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh PA University of Pittsburgh Press 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
American poetry.
POETRY / General
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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

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