Nature Poem Contributor(s): Pico, Tommy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1941040632 ISBN-13: 9781941040638 Publisher: Tin House Books
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Poetry | Native American - Poetry | Lgbt |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2016056390 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.30 lbs) 88 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Sex & Gender - Gay |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/20/2017 Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 90 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Nature Poem follows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't 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. He'd slap a tree across the face. He'd rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he'd rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he's 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pico, Tommy: - Tommy "Teebs" Pico is the author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk. He's 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. |
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