{"product_id":"horses-poems-paperback","title":"Horses: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJake Skeets\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.\" --Joy Harjo, author of \u003ci\u003eWashing My Mother's Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNavajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets's highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, Jake Skeets emerged as a visionary new literary voice, offering readers a queer, Indigenous poetics inextricable from a connection to land. With \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e, Skeets tracks the shifting land of the Navajo Nation: What changes and what remains the same in a place that has been inhabited for thousands of years? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn poems employing numbers significant to Diné thought and lifeway, Skeets explores the reclamation of land, imagination, and language--a world beyond environmental apocalypse, where joy is possible and where transformation is embraced over erasure. Arranged as a quartet, \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a meditation on two hundred horses found dead, mired in mud that had once been a stock pond on Navajo land in Arizona. What was once a source of life had become a death trap for a herd living on the edge of survival. From here, Skeets's poems radiate outward, tracing the body and its relationship to a landscape marked by geologic time and the fragile, eroding moments of the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiercely observant, brilliantly constructed, and hauntingly incisive, \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJake Skeets\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, selected by the National Poetry Series and winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and an American Book Award. A Whiting Award recipient, Skeets is from the Navajo Nation and was appointed the Nation's third Poet Laureate. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290431271161,"sku":"9781639551521","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0E0B073PK09781639551521.webp?v=1776283591","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/horses-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}