Eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
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83 pages ; 23 cm
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 PBK
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811.6 PBK
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"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."--Amazon.com.
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