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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems by Jake Skeets

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dark hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

my first book of poems, and a bleak, visceral one that is the very embodiment of "that escalated quickly." eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers is unrelenting in its blunt, unsentimental yet emotionally evocative depiction of the human body--both in its destruction, exploration, and desire; the bleak landscape of the midwest gallup, nm (from which the author is a native) where death and beauty alike abound; and the interaction between and coalescence of both.

the writing stuns me: a poem's or a line's meaning could drastically change w/ just a word or a turn of phrase, the narrative suddenly exploding or--even more admirably--subtly shifts into a violent one. im an unlearned novice when it comes to poetry, so this collection is prolly even better than i can comprehend. a bleak, beautiful, yet ultimately hopeful book of poems that i will def be rereading to mine for initially-missed gems. 
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