Nature Poem by Tommy Pico (English) Paperback Book

Description: Nature Poem by Tommy Pico Nature Poem follows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who cant bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. Hed slap a tree across the face. Hed rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; hed rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While hes adamant--bratty, even--about his distaste for the word "natural," over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the "natural world," he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Tommy "Teebs" Pico is the author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk. Hes been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Public Library. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributor editor at Literary Hub. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Los Angeles, CA. Long Description Most Anticipated Book of 2017 at Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, and more.A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer cant bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. Review Quote "Through text messages, Gchats, snippets of dialogue, and critical theory shorthand, Pico builds a wisecracking dialectic between the speaker-self and nature. . . . At once flippant and furious, Pico turns conversations into punchlines into accusations." Details ISBN1941040632 Author Tommy Pico Short Title NATURE POEM Pages 128 Publisher Tin House Books Language English ISBN-10 1941040632 ISBN-13 9781941040638 Format Paperback DEWEY 811.6 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-05-09 Audience General/Trade Imprint Tin House Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2017-05-09 NZ Release Date 2017-05-09 US Release Date 2017-05-09 UK Release Date 2017-05-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:125144470;

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