Nature Poem

Nature Poem

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer canâ€™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.

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Nature Poem follows Teebsâ€•a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poetâ€•who canâ€™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. Heâ€™d slap a tree across the face. Heâ€™d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; heâ€™d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While heâ€™s adamantâ€•bratty, evenâ€•about his distaste for the word â€œnatural,â€ 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 â€œnatural world,â€ 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.
Country USA
Brand Tin House Books
Manufacturer Tin House Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781941040638
ReleaseDate 2017-05-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781941040638

Country	USA
Brand	Tin House Books
Manufacturer	Tin House Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781941040638
ReleaseDate	2017-05-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781941040638

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