Junk by Tommy Pico - 2018

Tin House Books, 2018-05-08. Paperback. Used: Good.

Tin House Books, 2018. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Tin House Books, LLC. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Tin House Books, LLC. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

An NPR Best Book of the YearFrom 2018 Whiting Award winner Tommy Pico, Junk is a book-length break-up poem that explores the experience of loss and erasure, both personal and cultural.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… Read More

Tin House Books. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Tin House Books, 2018-05-08. Paperback. Like New.

Tin House Books, 2018-05-08. Paperback. New.

Paperback. Very Good.

Tin House Books, 2018-05-08. Paperback. Used:Good.