{"product_id":"horses-poems","title":"Horses Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jake Skeets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Milkweed Editions, 2026-03-24\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\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 stays the same, in a place that has been inhabited for thousands of years?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArranged as a quartet, this collection begins with a meditation on apocalypse. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn poems composed using numbers important to Diné thought and lifeway, \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon--hope, complicated and held close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47217705975977,"sku":"PHBK-9781639551521","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/20591123482771.jpg?v=1782241984","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/horses-poems","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}