Thelatest installment in the Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature, Mare´s Nest explores a Kentucky horse farm in its turbulent beginnings.From Kentuckynative and Brooklyn-based poet Holly Mitchell, Mare´s Nest 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 Horses, Mitchell touches upon history, dreams, Southern familystories, and queer adolescence in the early aughts.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.
