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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems by Jake Skeets
2 reviews
readingwithkaitlyn's review
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Homophobia, Child abuse, Gun violence, Alcohol, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Suicide, Death, Blood, Car accident, Animal death, and Rape
jayisreading's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
This collection was more bleak than I expected yet touched on the beauty and tenderness found in the world. Skeets unabashedly explores sexuality and its intimacies, these particular poems being visceral, especially how they’re nestled within nature (buffalograss is one that comes back). Many of these poems are also meditations on Skeet’s queer and Indigenous identity, as well as masculinity. Fragmented and experimental, each word clearly chosen with much deliberation and making these poems evocative.
Some favorites: “Tácheeh,” “Love Poem,” “In the Fields” (first and last)
Read for the Sealey Challenge.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Homophobia and Racism
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