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Nezhukumatathil, Aimee

Cooking Education & Reference

Ecco

From pickpockets to peacocks, elephant rides to electrocuted oysters, miracle fruit to the Incrdible Hulk, Aime Nezukumatathil teases the uncommon out of the commonplace,the miraculous out of the mundane. With a sensory zest that tickles both mind and tongue, she invokes her heritage in inimitable poems that go straight for the heart. Her gift for gloriously exact detail, her vulnerability, and her humor make Fishbone an impressive and eclectic debut.

Fishbone

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Snail's Pace Press, Inc.

Poetry. As three worlds collide, a mother's Philippines, a father's India and the poet's contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise and affecting embroidery that celebrates the senses while remaining down-to-earth and genuine. "We see that everything is in fact miracle fruit, including this book itself"-Andrew Hudgins.

Miracle Fruit

United States

Tupelo Press

"Nezhukumatathil’s poems contain elegant twists of a very sharp knife. She writes about the natural world and how we live in it, filling each poem, each page with a true sense of wonder." ―Roxane Gay
“Cultural strands are woven into the DNA of her strange, lush... poems. Aphorisms...from another dimension.” ―The New York Times
“With unparalleled ease, she’s able to weave each intriguing detail into a nuanced, thought-provoking poem that also reads like a startling modern-day fable.” ―The Poetry Foundation
“How wonderful to watch a writer who was already among the best young poets get even better!” ―Terrance Hayes
With inquisitive flair, Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth’s wonderful and terrible magic. In her fourth collection of poetry, she studies forms of love as diverse and abundant as the ocean itself. She brings to life a father penguin, a C-section scar, and the Niagara Falls with a powerful force of reverence for life and living things. With an encyclopedic range of subjects and unmatched sincerity, Oceanic speaks to each reader as a cooperative part of the earth, an extraordinary neighborhood to which we all belong.
From “Starfish and Coffee”:
And that’s how you feel after tumbling like sea stars on the ocean floor over each other. A night where it doesn’t matter which are arms or which are legs or what radiates and how― only your centers stuck together.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poetry. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the prestigious Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, Nezhukumatathil teaches creative writing and environmental literature in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.

Oceanic

Copper Canyon Press

As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted—no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape—she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance.\n“What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts.

World of Wondwes, In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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ANew York Times Best Seller Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year AKirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction A Southern Book Prize Finalist An NPR Best Book of 2020 AnEsquire Best Book of 2020 A BookPage Best Book of 2020 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 AWall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020 An Indie Next Pick, September 2019 APublishers Weekly "Big Indie Book of Fall 2020" A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020 ARalph Lauren Summer Reading Recommendation AGarden & Gun Summer Reading Recommendation A Bustle "Best Book of Fall 2020 Named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2020" by The Millions An Alma "Favorite Book for Fall 2020" A Literary Hub "Recommended Climate Read for September 2020" AMpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020 From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted--no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape--she was able to turn to our world's fierce and funny creatures for guidance. "What the peacock can do," she tells us, "is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life." The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past thedistractions in order to fully appreciate the world's gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura,World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year 
A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction 
A Southern Book Prize Finalist 
An NPR Best Book of 2020 
An Esquire Best Book of 2020 
A BookPage Best Book of 2020 
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 
A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020 
An Indie Next Pick, September 2019 
A Publishers Weekly "Big Indie Book of Fall 2020" 
A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 
A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020 
A Ralph Lauren Summer Reading Recommendation 
A Garden & Gun Summer Reading Recommendation 
A Bustle "Best Book of Fall 2020 
Named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2020" by The Millions 
An Alma "Favorite Book for Fall 2020" 
A Literary Hub "Recommended Climate Read for September 2020" 
A Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020 
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction―a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. 
As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted―no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape―she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. 
“What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. 
Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.

Review\nJoy Is the Garden: A Review of Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Lace & Pyrite\nZ.L. Nickels\nThe most neglected book of garden poems you have never read is not really a book at all. Rather, it is a reprint of an unheralded contribution to literature's epistolary project, a small gathering of poems-as-letters by two of this country's best poets, Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. 
Lace & Pyrite received little fanfare or mention upon its initial release seven years ago; to the extent most readers are familiar with this twelve-poem project is as a line item toward the end of either poet's biography. This is a shame, both because these are the collaborations we need more of and because of what it reveals of its participants in their attempt to "[make] sense and record of a full year in [their] respective gardens." We receive a mere six poems apiece (one of which was later expanded into Gay's poem "Burial"), but what we are given speaks to these poet's experience of the garden as well as their relationship to it. This rendering is conceived as a dialectic. Nezhukumatathil casts her gaze inward: 
----"Even in this 
---draught, I go back to the garden so often because 
---I don't know yet how to function in a world without 
---my mother." 
Gay casts his out: 
---"Good Lord the strawberry flowers 
---are the pursed lips of ghosts 
---I want to know. Yes, today I am on my belly 
---for that scant perfume, this invisible parade 
---of dying and bloom." 
And as the book continues, their positions switch. This is a consideration of the garden: how we tend to it, to ourselves and to the world. They are not the first poets to think about the garden, nor to write epistolary poems to one another, but they are some of the best to do so simultaneously. Therefore, the apt description of Lace & Pyrite-one in which there is both too much being said and too little-is a simple description: this book is a conversation about gardening. 
Three years ago, in another conversation about gardening, W.S. Merwin affirmed to the philosopher John Kaag that "there is no time in the garden." This is a powerful organizing concept-not just for thinking the garden itself but also our relation to it. After all, who among us has entered the garden, whether it be a personal plot or the botanical sublime, and never lost their sense of time? But there is more to this relationship than physical space; Lace & Pyrite reminds us that the garden is beholden to the seasons. There is no time in the garden, but the garden feels the weight of time.\nhttps: //crazyhorse.cofc.edu/joy-is-the-garden-a-review-of-ross-gay-and-aimee-nezhukumatathils-lace-pyrite/\nLace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens\nOriginally published by Organic Weapon Arts in 2014, Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens captures seasonal changes and life unfolding from the perspective of two gardens: Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. What began as an unprompted poem correspondence between the two poets in the late July swelter of 2011 blossomed into a beautiful collection of epistolary poetry.\nThis reprint of Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens by Get Fresh Books Publishing comprises all of its original poetry and includes an interview published by The Margins titled, "Our Wholeness, Our Togetherness: A Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Ross Gay."\nRoss Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His New York Times best-selling collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. He also works on The Tenderness Project with Shayla Lawson and Essence London. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Confere

Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens

Gay, Ross

Essays & Correspondence

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