Junk / Tommy Pico.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pico, Tommy, author.

Contributor:

• Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Poetry.

Genre:

• Narrative poetry.
• Poetry.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2018.

Summary:

"The third book in Tommy Pico's Teebs trilogy, 'Junk' is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing political landscape? In part taking its cue from A.R. Ammons's 'Garbage,' Teebs names this liminal space 'Junk,' in the sense that a junk shop is full of old things waiting for their next use; different items that collectively become indistinct. But can there be a comfort outside the anxiety of utility? An appreciation of 'being' for the sake of being? And will there be Chili Cheese Fritos?"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781941040973
• 1941040977

OCLC:

1005696148

Publisher Number:

99977053054

Online:

The Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Home Page