{"product_id":"eyes-bottle-dark-with-a-mouthful-of-flowers-poems-9781571315205","title":"Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a \"Best Poetry Book of 2019\" by Electric Literature, Entropy Mag, and Auburn Avenue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a \"Favorite Book of 2019\" by Lit Hub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a \"Best Queer Book of 2019\" by BuzzFeed and Book Marks\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSelected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, \u003ci\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drunktown, 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sculptural, ambitious, and defiantly vulnerable, the poems of \u003ci\u003eEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e are coal that remains coal, despite the forces that conspire for diamond, for electricity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jake Skeets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660153417884,"sku":"9781571315205","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_79c9c997-53c1-42a8-a6b4-d825882161dd.jpg?v=1603896211","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eyes-bottle-dark-with-a-mouthful-of-flowers-poems-9781571315205","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}