Horses
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Akoya Publishing
Published:2nd Apr '26
Should be back in stock very soon
Critically acclaimed Diné poet Jake Skeets' collection discusses the devastating impact of global warming, industrialisation and US aggression.
The landscape of the Navajo Nation is in the grip of dramatic transformation. Sand dune migration has led to drought and 191 horses have been found drowned in a stock pond filled with mud.
Opening with a meditation on this loss, Horses is an electric response to crisis: a reclamation of land, imagination and language; a fierce act of protest; and a song for the beauty of nature. It evokes both the end of a world and a sense of emergence amid chaos, a new dawn flickering on the horizon.
Somewhere in a dune field
I am hunched over like a comma
studying the way a landfill
can be mistaken for a sky
'Skeets challenges toxic masculinity with a queer coming-of-age narrative that’s knowingly reminiscent of D.A. Powell’s “Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys” - but distinctly oriented within Navajo culture and the landscape of Gallup.'
'...the debut of a brilliant and transcendent poet, whose work conveys a gorgeous sense of self and of storytelling ability - qualities of the best literature in any tradition.’
'Everything, for Skeets, becomes an image...At his best, he relies less on the shape of the page than on the sounds of words, the evocations, noun by noun, of these difficult spaces, where some of us feel at home even in distress, where many of us will never be.'
‘Skeets is a new, essential voice in poetry, in literature.’
-- Tommy OrISBN: 9781836750109
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144 pages