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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
challenging
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Thank God for the challenges, otherwise i would not have even considered...I am so so glad that ive read this. It was beautiful.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
I love the playfulness that meets with genuine introspection in every moment of this collection. I laughed out loud a few different times as I listened to the author narrate their poems while reading along.
Really interesting approach to a collection of poetry “about” nature - and a twist of what we mean by nature socially.
Really interesting approach to a collection of poetry “about” nature - and a twist of what we mean by nature socially.
Doesn’t feel right to rate this one, but it’s very good. Some of the style wasn’t for me, but this extended poem isn’t for me anyway, it’s practically a summary of a problematic discourse about nature and how it’s most often a colonial construct. Not to mention that language and how so many Indigenous languages are dying or have already died out and how English is not and never has been a neutral language.
Brilliant. But also sad and enraging. Anyway, that’s why I don’t want to rate it. But maybe I’ll change my mind later and give it five stars just to bump it up the algorithm. Ugh. So tired of thinking actively about algorithms.
Brilliant. But also sad and enraging. Anyway, that’s why I don’t want to rate it. But maybe I’ll change my mind later and give it five stars just to bump it up the algorithm. Ugh. So tired of thinking actively about algorithms.
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
i really need to get my hands on a printed copy of this text, but the audiobook was amazing!! pico's delivery is chef's kiss, and i love how the collection acknowledges that nature is inescapable and also that nature can be many different things, including ugly and destructive (especially in the natural disaster language that was used to describe things outside of nature). i love how pico integrated queerness, and it was incredible to witness how pico subverted various Indigenous tropes to talk about the nuances of nature poem's world. nature may be especially inescapable at the moment for Indigenous peoples because of stereotype, but pico rounds out teebs's world and Kumeyaay identity far beyond nature with discussions of family and love and city life. all in all, it's technically a poem about nature, but it's also a poem about so many other things
Content Warnings
Moderate: Genocide, Homophobia, Racism
I often find myself struggling to understand a poem. The author voicing this one, performing the work, helped me to feel the emotions and thought behind Nature Poem. I enjoyed the connection and disconnection incorporated into the poem of nature, urbanity, identity, queerness, emotion, the future.
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced