Jake Skeets' Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a stunning collection that explores Diné (Navajo) experience through lyrical, visceral poetry. Skeets transforms landscape, body, and memory into a powerful meditation on Indigenous identity, queerness, and survival. Each poem becomes a complex geography of resistance, mapping emotional and physical terrains.

Because poetry can be an act of radical presence. Skeets creates a language that is at once intimate and expansive, revealing the profound complexity of contemporary Indigenous experience.