{"product_id":"9780771022333","title":"Horses","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e's Most Anticipated Books of 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Jake Skeets","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035559211220,"sku":"9780771022333","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_799c4be4-e37b-42a6-beb7-da2d80c32359.jpg?v=1780356754","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780771022333","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}