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- ISBN 9781836750109
- Weight: 164g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Akoya Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers, and winner of the National Poetry Series, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, American Book Award and Whiting Award. His writing has appeared in Poetry Foundation, The New York Times Magazine and The Paris Review.
Skeets is the recipient of an NEA Grant and a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship. He is Diné, from the Navajo Nation, and is currently serving as the 3rd Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, 2025-2027.
