Mare's Nest

The debut poetry collection from Holly Mitchell, Mare’s Nest , explores a Kentucky horse farm in its turbulent beginnings.

The title refers to the idiom—“a complex and difficult situation, a muddle” and “an illusory discovery”—as well as an image: the depression a horse leaves after lying in the grass. These poems trouble the meaning of a racehorse and in particular the broodmare and the foals she ...