{"product_id":"horses","title":"Horses","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.” —Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother's Body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWith 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFiercely observant, brilliantly constructed, and hauntingly incisive, Horses evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAuthor: Jake Skeets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePages: 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDimensions: 8.5 in H | 5.5 in W\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOn sale date: March 24, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePublisher: Milkweed Editions\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389446328534,"sku":"9781639551521","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/6649\/7238\/files\/Horses.jpg?v=1788911599","url":"https:\/\/telegraphhillbooks.com\/products\/horses","provider":"Telegraph Hill Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}