228:: "Pico’s work is, in parts, a rose at the altar of the international decolonial movement, imagining what our LGBT and the broader community of marginalized Americans look like if we were to shake ourselves of our bourgeois comforts of the Obama Era and truly resist (purposefully un-hashtagged)."
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was written in first-person narration following the character Teebs, a queer “NDN” (American Indian). Teebs is a fictional character, and a development of Pico’s alter-ego and performance persona. Teebs confronts the stereotypes put upon him by white colonialism, such as Indian
Americans' association
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states, "Mix of hey that’s poetry (uncanny resistance) with hey that’s a text and smashing goals & fulfilling them along the way & saying my parents fulfilled them. Doing it differently being alive & an artist. I love this work. Unpredictable & sweet & strong to continue."
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questions what is considered appropriate nature poetry and ensures that while searching for a nature poem within the book, readers are confronted with Teebs' experiences of "domestic violence, structural poverty, environmental racism, and nuclear disaster."
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writes that this modern poem explores the tendency of
American consumer society to view nature as a "cosmetic accessory," while also exploring the contradiction between Teebs' condemnation of "empty materialism" and his simultaneous "love letter" to it.
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Pico's writing frequently uses text-slang, hashtags, pop-culture references, and humor. Nature Poem was written as a series of individual poems meant to be read in sequence.
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Tommy Pico calls out the monetization and colonization of the indigenous people where people think it’s appropriate to use indigenous culture for their own sake.
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Tommy Pico uses the character Teebs to show the life of a queer indigenous Indian.
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565:"'Not Waiting for Inspiration': An Interview with Tommy Pico"
516:"Tommy Pico's New Book Confronts American Indian Stereotypes"
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