num_pages: 98
description: IRL is a sweaty summertime poem composed like a long text message rooted in the epic tradition of A.R. Ammons ancient Kumeyaay Bird Songs and Beyoncs visual albums. It follows Teebs a reservation-born queer NDN weirdo trying to figure out his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops privacy in the age of the Internet street harassment suicide boys boys boys literature colonialism religion leaving one's 20s and a love/hate relationship with English. Hes plagued by an indecision unsure of which obsessions attractions and impulses are essentially his and which are the result of Christian conversion hetero-patriarchal/colonialist white supremacy homophobia Bacardi gummy candy and not getting laid. IRL asks what happens to a modern queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language their religion and their history? Teebs feels compelled towards boys burgersbooze though he begins to suspect there is perhaps a more ancient goddess calling to him behind art behind music behind poetry.
language: English
title: IRL
publisher: Birds, LLC