{"product_id":"mares-nest-9781956046120","title":"Mare's Nest","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003elatest installment in the Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature, \u003ci\u003eMare's Nest \u003c\/i\u003eexplores a Kentucky horse farm in its turbulent beginnings.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Kentucky\u003cbr\u003enative and Brooklyn-based poet Holly Mitchell, \u003ci\u003eMare's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e troubles the meaning of a racehorse, in particular the\u003cbr\u003ebroodmare and the foals she carries. Reaching from the photographic experiment\u003cbr\u003eof Muybridge's \"The Horse in Motion\" to Patti Smith's album \u003ci\u003eHorses, \u003c\/i\u003e Mitchell touches upon history, dreams, Southern family\u003cbr\u003estories, and queer adolescence in the early aughts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColloquially\u003cbr\u003ereferring to a muddled situation or an illusory discovery, the term \"mare's\u003cbr\u003enest\" can also refer quite literally to the soft depression left by a horse\u003cbr\u003elying in grass. And so the idea of a \"mare's nest,\" in all of its linguistic\u003cbr\u003epotential, serves as the central focus for Holly Mitchell's meditative debut. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHolly Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet from Kentucky, now based in New York. A winner of an Amy Award from Poets \u0026amp; Writers, Holly received an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU and a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College. Holly's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eSteaming\u003c\/i\u003e (an online publication by \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eAfternoon Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLambda Literary Poetry Spotlight\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487215259922,"sku":"9781956046120","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_394e5e43-f582-4385-a5f1-3e7ddd9ab082.jpg?v=1730434894","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mares-nest-9781956046120","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}