Review
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“Riveting.”
- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“A dazzling fusion of culture. Feed is as much about what we
consume as how we consume. Pico's lines are ever-growing,
ever-expanding. And while we might seem lost in the abundance,
the sheer variety, Pico is a skilled enough poet to ground us.
... How Pico pulls all this off is his magic. Feed is engrossing,
oddly enlightening and, above all, fun to read.”
- Shelf Awareness
“Funny, irreverent, profound. This book is an ode to love and
language and food and what right now sounds like. It’s also a
meditation on what it means to belong on/to this planet/universe.
Delivered in headlines, texts, conversations, song lyrics, puns,
rhymes, and speculation about the possibility of life on other
planets, Tommy Pico’s Feed sprawls across time and this country.
It is endlessly inventive and stays fun while bringing the heat
and weight of a world we’re all helplessly watching burn down. As
his character/AKA Teebs says of Oakland rapper Two $hort, the
same is true of Tommy Pico in this book and in general: Vigor is
the art he argues for.”
- Tommy Orange
“Tommy Pico’s Feed is the poet’s most ambitious work yet. Part
tour diary, part tracklist, part play, part by part Pico tops his
epic run of books off with this gut-wrenching, gut-busting,
gutter mouth offering of a body in lust, in isolation, in danger,
in memory, in future and all the transits between. Feed is a
feast of Pico’s signature intellect, humor, and linguistic
demolition―all sharper than ever. No one corrals our day’s chaos
like Pico, who serves it up to us as some of the wildest verse
the world has ever seen. Bon appétit, bitches.”
- Danez Smith
“Tommy Pico is indiscreet, rambunctious, spunky and operatic, on
the page and off, a dynamo, a force, a one-man band with one hand
behind his back and the other setting a guitar on fire. I feel
utterly consumed by his poems, absolutely smitten. This is poetry
that makes you sweat.”
- DA Powell, author of USELESS LANDSCAPE, OR A GUIDE FOR BOYS
“Feed is an incredibly study in chaos, a plunge into the hectic
mind disrupted by headlines that scream tragedy and demand our
attention. Pico’s use of language insists on carving space for a
new quotidian, in bluntly grappling with the ways we use words on
the daily, breaking and re-making the art of poetry. This book is
inventive, wild, fresh, urgent―spanning the author at their most
vulnerable and their fiercest. Pico is at the forefront of a new
poetics, blazing an unchartable trail that we should all attempt
to follow. Surrender to the wild friends, for we are in it, and
Pico has us by the tips of our tongues.”
- imah Asghar, author of IF THEY COME FOR US
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About the Author
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Tommy "Teebs" Pico is the author of the books IRL,
Nature Poem, and Junk. He's been the recipient of awards and
fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Lambda Literary
Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the New York Foundation for
the Arts, and the Brooklyn Public Library. He co-curates the
reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4
Thot, and is a contributor editor at Literary Hub. Originally
from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now
lives in Los Angeles, CA.
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