Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers
ISBN-13: 9781836750307
Contributor(s): Jake Skeets
Subject: Poetry
Publisher Imprint: Akoya Publishing
Publication Date: 04-03-2027
Format: Paperback
Availability: Not yet published
£12.99
About the book
Drunktown, New Mexico. A sleeping man is run over by a truck. His son is stabbed forty-seven times. A woman is found dead in an arroyo. A boy is hit by a train. Dogs maul remains. As the town mourns tragic losses, Skeets reaches inwards, exploring his own queerness, boyhood and grief. His debut is an unflinching portrait of the American west and 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.