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Tommy Pico ’06 announces that his first book, IRL, is coming out with Birds, LLC. 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 Beyoncé's visual albums. It 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?