this wound is a world billy ray belcourt

It is theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the tyranny of sexual and racial norms. Winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry, author of NDN Coping Mechanisms. 1 2017 by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Author) 72 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 29.99 5 Used from 29.99 Audio CD 27.76 1 New from 27.76 Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside. Presented here with several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. In his third book, A History of My Brief Body, Belcourt breaks form to gesture toward a queer indigenous utopia. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. This book is what we’ve been waiting for.” “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. Belcourt is also the author of the poetry collection This Wound is a World which was chosen as one of CBC's top ten poetry collections of 2017 and won the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking”, writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway.

This wound is a world billy ray belcourt