The Black Outside

Joy Priest is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Horsepower: Poems.

"The Black Outside is a deft, well-crafted, book-length poetic mediation on family, race, ecology, and more. There are beautiful love poems and longing poems and family poems and elegies and not-quite pastorals and odes. There's so much music in this book, and so much celebration, and so much sorrow and devastation. The Black Outside offers many wonderfully unmooring readings. I love it."-Ross Gay, author of, The Book of (More) Delights "Joy Priest's poetry is generous and capacious, inviting us in to an intimate outside. We experience shadow and heat, loss and memory and the thickness of love. We become cherished guests in the contradictions we already live, with the chance to learn something new about being alive."-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of, Primary: After and with Alma Thomas