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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.

A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more.

 

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.

Nature Poem Tommy Pico Books

Wow. Blown away by this. Love his use of language.

I wrote elsewhere that I wanted to give out quotes from this, but every time I opened the book to find something I just started reading all over again.

For me, the language was just the right mix of accessible and challenging. The subject matter too! It's a fine balance with poetry and there's a lot I don't have patience for, on both ends. But when it hits - woah.

I have his first book on order and am looking forward to his next later this spring.


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Nature Poem Tommy Pico Books Reviews

Wonderful!
not bad!
Brilliant. I've read it in bits and pieces. Re-read. Shared my copy. Just bought another. Ready to read it again. I'm entranced.
Honestly, I haven't read all of it yet, but so far it is great. Product description was exactly right.

I love this author's work. He's really different and he has wonderful insights. A joy to find something meaningful and fun at the same time.
A genius and a legend in the making and we’re all here to witness it.
Tommy Pico is an excellent and evocative poet. He manages to make his blunt statements and bold topics sound elegant without sugar-coating or lightening the weight of his words. Nature Poem is a truly beautiful work of art, and I've leant it to three of my friends who all loved it. On top of that, it's a quick read although it is not quick to leave the mind.
I teach university courses in Native American and Environmental Literature and just finished teaching Nature Poem for the first time in fall 2018. On the one hand, it's a challenging text to teach because there is SO much packed into every section of this extended rumination on Tommy Pico's ambivalent relationship with "nature" He wrestles with and rejects reductive white stereotypes of Indigenous peoples' complex connections with ancestral earth places, yet reflects lovingly on the beauty of his own Kumeyaay Nation homelands. On the other hand, my students loved this book so much that I didn't really need to "teach" it at all Nature Poem speaks for itself, voicing Pico's smart, snarky, self-conscious, love-and-loathing relationship with identity boxes, in language that is fresh, lively, and ultra-contemporary (including text-talk abbreviations). Pico's wordplay, his colonialist critiques, and his willingness to go there make this book grow better with each reading. Buy it and treat yourself.
Wow. Blown away by this. Love his use of language.

I wrote elsewhere that I wanted to give out quotes from this, but every time I opened the book to find something I just started reading all over again.

For me, the language was just the right mix of accessible and challenging. The subject matter too! It's a fine balance with poetry and there's a lot I don't have patience for, on both ends. But when it hits - woah.

I have his first book on order and am looking forward to his next later this spring.