Horses: Poems - Softcover

Skeets, Jake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1639551522 ISBN 13: 9781639551521

Verlag: Milkweed Editions, 2026

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From the award-winning poet of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate’s highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants. 

In 2018, nearly two hundred feral horses were found mired in mud that had once been a stock pond near Northern Arizona. A source of life had become a death trap for a herd living on the edge of survival. From here, poems radiate outward, tracing the body and its relationship to a landscape marked by geologic time in order to situate the fragile, eroding moment of the present. “Dust storms lope at the sprig / and spur of low hills,” he writes, witnessing the formation and destruction of the land as it changes alongside the creatures who depend on one another for stability and sustenance: hummingbirds, horse grass, humans.

Formally thrilling and composed using symbols and figures important to Diné thought and lifeway, Horses evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon—hope, complicated and held close.

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Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023–2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. Serving as Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, Skeets lives and teaches in Oklahoma.

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• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1639551522
• ISBN 13: 9781639551521
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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