NettetJoy Priest is the author of the collection Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets … Nettet9. okt. 2024 · 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 …
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Nettet20. jan. 2024 · Joy Priest University of Pittsburgh Press (Sept 2024) 68 pages Link to Horsepower in LFPL’s collection The poems in Joy Priest’s Horsepower speak powerfully of a Black girl’s experiences growing up in the South End of Louisville. NettetJoy Priest was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024), which won the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Priest has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. the gltc
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Nettet22. sep. 2024 · Horsepower, by Joy Priest. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2024. 68 pages. $17.00, paper. Buy directly from University of Pittsburgh Press NettetHorsepower Poems. Joy Priest. 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 ... Nettet9. okt. 2024 · Joy Priest is a writer from Louisville, KY. Her first book, HORSEPOWER (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024), was selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as … the assassination of jesse james by the cowa