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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.”
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:68 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2021
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- ISBN:9780822966197
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:68 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822966197
