Tommy Pico

From the Winner of the Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and finalist for a Lambda, Tommy Pico's Feed is the final book in the Teebs Cycle. Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy. It's an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness. Among its questions, Feed asks what's the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac & cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a faith that even amidst the mess, it knows where it's going.

Feed

Lindsay

The father the son and the biblical three-way

Smith & Wesson math lesson XO message in a bottle of wild turkey

I don’t have much of anything figured out, but I do know to be indigenous is not to be a miracle of circumstance but to be the golden light of relentless cunning.

But sometimes it feels like it’s everyone else around me growing up, and I’m just getting older.

Is it revolutionary, asserting the desire to continue? Well,

baked sage mac n cheese that I’m whisking alive like an al dente Evanescence cheese- rock bop. Whistle while you whisk away the rage scrunched in yr boulders. I says to them around the table I says—

Portland Oregon is a bunch of white ppl in a brew pub whose name is two random nouns like Sage & Mortar or Whimsy + Pickles or Straw and Freddy Krueger Glove Expectant faces expecting

to smile back. I don’t do that. Portland Maine, the other white Portland, is a bunch of full leg pants and poly pan- sexuals

The reason why we don’t have the conversation is because we’re afraid we already know the answer.

Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy. It's an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness. Among its questions, Feed asks what's the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac & cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a faith that even amidst the mess, it knows where it's going.

Gabriel Noel 

ARC given by Edelweiss+ for Honest Review

I've enjoyed Tommy Pico's work before so I was super excited to pick up his most recent book! Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy and follows the same "stream of consciousness" free-form flow that Pico has molded into his own. Feed focuses on the nourishment of the body, mind, and soul. The book is interspersed with music tracks, recipes, headlines, and chants that all create a well rounded and hearty piece. If Pico wanted to feed then he really hit the nail on the head!

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