Ebook {Epub PDF} Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets

 · “On its surface, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is an examination of toxic masculinity through the lens of a queer, indigenous Southwesterner, a book in which alcoholism, violence, and sex under cover of night are both ruefully and sensually described. But experiencing Jake Skeets’s collection is more akin to listening to a musical score to, or watching the choreography of, Brand: Milkweed Editions.  · In Jake Skeets’s Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, the American Southwest’s wild and grassy terrain collides with human bodies and nonhuman objects. A strange and uncanny poetic landscape emerges, one in which a dead cactus conceals a burrowing owl, where wild rose and sego lily lead us to a noisy truck radio. The poems in Jake Skeets’ award-winning poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers are brimming with violence, eroticism, and desperation. Skeets turns his penetrating gaze on “The Indian Capital of the World” to illuminate the heartache endemic to /5.

Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water's Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He is the author of the poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series and the American Book www.doorway.ru holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Jake Skeets's debut collection, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed, ), is devastating. The imagery chokes and bruises: a fragmented skull, a blackened scalp, "cracked hawkweed sacrum." The rhythm meanders and slants as Skeets examines place, belonging, Diné masculinities, toxicity, and love. There is so much bottle-dark beauty here. Skeets is a new, essential voice in poetry, in literature." --Tommy Orange "One of my favorite new poetry books is Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets His poems bring us an intimate portrait of Diné masculinity." --Rigoberto Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times.

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Award. Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros. Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men "only touch when they fuck in a backseat.". The poems in Jake Skeets’ award-winning poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers are brimming with violence, eroticism, and desperation. Skeets turns his penetrating gaze on “The Indian Capital of the World” to illuminate the heartache endemic to marginalization of all description.