{"product_id":"eyes-bottle-dark-with-a-mouthful-of-flowers-poems-paperback","title":"Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, \u003cem\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men \"only touch when they fuck in a backseat.\" Its landscape is scarred by violence: done to it, done on it, done for it. Under the cover of deepest night, sleeping men are run over by trucks. Navajo bodies are deserted in fields. Resources are extracted. Lines are crossed. Men communicate through beatings, and football, and sex. In this place, \"the closest men become is when they are covered in blood \/ or nothing at all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut if Jake Skeets's collection is an unflinching portrait of the actual west, it is also a fierce reclamation of a living place--full of beauty as well as brutality, whose shadows are equally capable of protecting encounters between boys learning to become, and to love, men. Its landscapes are ravaged, but they are also startlingly lush with cacti, yarrow, larkspur, sagebrush. And even their scars are made newly tender when mapped onto the lover's body: A spine becomes a railroad. \"Veins burst oil, elk black.\" And \"becoming a man \/ means knowing how to become charcoal.\" Rooted in Navajo history and thought, these poems show what has been brewing in an often forgotten part of the American literary landscape, an important language, beautiful and bone dense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSculptural, ambitious, and defiantly vulnerable, the poems of \u003cem\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e are coal that remains coal, despite the forces that conspire for diamond, for electricity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional recognition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a \"Best Poetry Book of 2019\" by Electric Literature, Entropy Mag, and Auburn Avenue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a \"Favorite Book of 2019\" by Lit Hub\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a \"Best Queer Book of 2019\" by BuzzFeed and Book Marks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJake Skeets\u003c\/b\u003e is Black Streak Wood, born for Water's Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Poetry Series-winning collection of poems. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Skeets is a winner of the 2018 Discovery\/\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Skeets edits an online publication called \u003ci\u003eCloudthroat\u003c\/i\u003e and organizes a poetry salon and reading series called Pollentongue, based in the Southwest. He is a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́ A Diné Writers' Collective and currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63255871193437,"sku":"9781571315205","price":26.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/Q4zGUTmo5z9781571315205.webp?v=1769943105","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/eyes-bottle-dark-with-a-mouthful-of-flowers-poems-paperback","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}