Horsepower /
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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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh PA
University of Pittsburgh Press
2020.
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| Series: | Pitt Poetry Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- 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