Horses
Autor Jake Skeetsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2026
Longlisted in the 2026 National Book Awards
"Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book." --Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother's Body
Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets's highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.
"For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it."
With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets emerged as a visionary new literary voice, offering readers a queer, Indigenous poetics inextricable from a connection to land. With Horses, 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?
In 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, Horses 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.
Fiercely observant, brilliantly constructed, and hauntingly incisive, Horses evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1639551522
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Milkweed Editions
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Descriere
The landscape of the Navajo Nation is undergoing dramatic changes. In 2018, 191 wild horses were discovered dead in a stock pond near Gray Mountain. The horses were trapped thigh- and neck-deep in mud, some piled on top of others. Horses is a twelve-part poem responding to the climate crisis faced by this region and beyond. 'This is the story we tell when seasons change / but what are told of time: time is an ulcer / a lie we tell through mouths not our own / because this mouth belongs to policy/ because time is stolen from us.' Horses is about the end of the world, but it might also be about emergence, caught somewhere at the horizon, like the morning, all blue and crisp.