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  • Nature Poem

  • By: Tommy Pico
  • Narrated by: Tommy Pico
  • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)

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Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico
Narrated by: Tommy Pico
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A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't 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.

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.

©2017 Tommy Pico (P)2020 Tantor
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Even better read by the author

I had read this book of poetry before and adored it, but it's even better hearing the author perform it. He made me laugh and also you could tell what parts he put the most feeling into. Excellent.

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