{"product_id":"horses-poems","title":"Horses: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\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","brand":"Jake Skeets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53617539940716,"sku":"9781639551521","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9781639551521-us.jpg?v=1776348240","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/horses-poems","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}