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Springing from her years growing up on a horse farm in Kentucky, the memoirlike free-verse poems in this first collection from the Amy Award—winning Mitchell are powered by visceral images related to breeding and raising horses, with the most evocative ones depicting mares giving birth. At the end of the collection, she provides a glossary of equine veterinary words she uses, "old and concrete but rarely inscrutable, a treasure trove for a poet," th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More