The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on
life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in
the United States “i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants
every blowjob to be transformative.” 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. “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. This book is what
we’ve been waiting for.” Part manifesto, part memoir, This
Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to
world inside.” 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. His poems upset genre and play
with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where
“everyone is at least a little gay.” 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. 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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2019 |
| Firstpublished: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Billy-Ray Belcourt
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 51mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
72 |
| Edition: |
1 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5179-0845-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-5179-0845-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781517908454 |
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