Mare's Nest

<p><b><span>Thelatest installment in the Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature, <i>Mare’s Nest </i>explores a <span>Kentucky horse farm in its turbulent beginnings.</span></span></b></p><p><span>From Kentuckynative and Brooklyn-based poet Holly Mitchell, <i>Mare’s Nest</i> troubles the meaning of a racehorse, in particular thebroodmare and the foals she carries. Reaching from the photographic experimentof Muybridge’s "The Horse in Motion" to Patti Smith’s album </span><i><span>Horses,</span></i><span> Mitchell touches upon history, dreams, Southern familystories, and queer adolescence in the early aughts.</span></p><p><span>Colloquiallyreferring to a muddled situation or an illusory discovery, the term “mare’snest” can also refer quite literally to the soft depression left by a horselying in grass. And so the idea of a “mare’s nest," in all of its linguisticpotential, serves as the central focus for Holly Mitchell’s meditative debut. </span></p>