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    IRL
    IRL
    IRL
    Audiobook1 hour

    IRL

    Written by Tommy Pico

    Narrated by Tommy Pico

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    About this audiobook

    IRL is a sweaty summertime poem composed like a long text message, rooted in the epic tradition of A.R. Ammons, ancient Kumeyaay Bird Songs, and Beyoncé’s visual albums.

    It follows Teebs, a reservation-born, queer NDN weirdo, trying to figure out his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops, privacy in the age of the Internet, street harassment, suicide, boys boys boys, literature, colonialism, religion, leaving one's 20s, and a love/hate relationship with English. He’s plagued by an indecision, unsure of which obsessions, attractions, and impulses are essentially his, and which are the result of Christian conversion, hetero-patriarchal/colonialist white supremacy, homophobia, Bacardi, gummy candy, and not getting laid.

    IRL asks, what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history? Teebs feels compelled towards “boys, burgers, booze”, though he begins to suspect there is perhaps a more ancient goddess calling to him behind art, behind music, behind poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateJan 28, 2018
    ISBN9781518991110
    IRL

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    • 5/5
      No one does it like Tommy. I’m not a great/skilled consumer of books and poetry but when it’s right, it’s right, right?