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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.
Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on
human–animal relationships have infrequently converged.
Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy
Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging
scholars about the connections between their academic work and
their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection
explores how authors working across a range of
perspectives—postcolonial, Indigenous, black, queer, trans,
feminist, disability, poststructuralist, posthumanist, and
multispecies—weave their theoretical and political orientations
with daily, intimate, and visceral practices of food consumption,
preparation, and ingestion. Each chapter introduces a scholar for
whom the tangled, contradictory character of human–animal
relations raises difficult questions about what they eat.
Representing a departure from canonical animal rights literature,
most authors featured in the collection do not make their food
politics or identities explicit in their published work. While some
interviewees practice vegetarianism or veganism, and almost all
decry the role of industrialized animal agriculture in the
environmental crisis, the contributors tend to reject a priori
ethical codes and politics grounded in purity, surety, or
simplicity. Remarkably free of proscriptions, but attentive to the
Eurocentric tendencies of posthumanist animal studies, Messy Eating
reveals how dietary habits are unpredictable and dynamic, shaped
but not determined by life histories, educational trajectories,
disciplinary homes, activist experiences, and intimate
relationships. These accessible and engaging conversations offer
rare and often surprising insights into pressing social issues
through a focus on the mundane—and messy— interactions that
constitute the professional, the political, and the personal.
Contributors: Neel Ahuja, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Matthew Calarco,
Lauren Corman, Naisargi Dave, Maneesha Deckha, María Elena
García, Sharon Holland, Kelly Struthers Montford, H. Peter
Steeves, Kim TallBear, Sunaura Taylor, Harlan Weaver, Kari Weil,
Cary Wolfe
In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous
doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel,
informed by a series of poignant encounters: a heart-to-heart with
fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on
marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted man from
his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the
realities of queer life on the fringe. Woven throughout these
conversations are memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of
police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the
narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are
left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus
introduces a dazzling new literary voice whose vision and
fearlessness shine much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous
survival.
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt's
Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms:
Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending
new work that uses the modes of accusation and interrogation. He
aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to
show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from
the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of
poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately
argues that if signifiers of Indigenous suffering are everywhere,
so too is evidence of Indigenous peoples' rogue possibility, their
utopian drive. In NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, the
poet takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream
portrayals of Indigenous life, love and its discontents, and the
limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation.
In the process, Belcourt once again demonstrates his extraordinary
craft, guile, and audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his
imagination.
Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on
human-animal relationships have infrequently converged.
Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy
Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging
scholars about the connections between their academic work and
their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection
explores how authors working across a range of
perspectives-postcolonial, Indigenous, black, queer, trans,
feminist, disability, poststructuralist, posthumanist, and
multispecies-weave their theoretical and political orientations
with daily, intimate, and visceral practices of food consumption,
preparation, and ingestion. Each chapter introduces a scholar for
whom the tangled, contradictory character of human-animal relations
raises difficult questions about what they eat. Representing a
departure from canonical animal rights literature, most authors
featured in the collection do not make their food politics or
identities explicit in their published work. While some
interviewees practice vegetarianism or veganism, and almost all
decry the role of industrialized animal agriculture in the
environmental crisis, the contributors tend to reject a priori
ethical codes and politics grounded in purity, surety, or
simplicity. Remarkably free of proscriptions, but attentive to the
Eurocentric tendencies of posthumanist animal studies, Messy Eating
reveals how dietary habits are unpredictable and dynamic, shaped
but not determined by life histories, educational trajectories,
disciplinary homes, activist experiences, and intimate
relationships. These accessible and engaging conversations offer
rare and often surprising insights into pressing social issues
through a focus on the mundane-and messy- interactions that
constitute the professional, the political, and the personal.
Contributors: Neel Ahuja, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Matthew Calarco,
Lauren Corman, Naisargi Dave, Maneesha Deckha, Maria Elena Garcia,
Sharon Holland, Kelly Struthers Montford, H. Peter Steeves, Kim
TallBear, Sunaura Taylor, Harlan Weaver, Kari Weil, Cary Wolfe
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