PositiveHarvard ReviewIn Jake Skeets’s Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, the American Southwest’s wild and grassy terrain collides with human bodies and nonhuman objects. A strange and uncanny poetic landscape emerges ... Some of these poems scatter letters across the page, and readers will most likely find their eyes drifting, trying to make sense of what looks like the remains of something once (but no longer) whole. Skeets’s poems often force readers to become scavengers for meaning ... a reminder that Anthropocene poetry is most compelling when it acknowledges multiple Anthropocenes—indigenous, Asian, black, and others.
