This wound is a world : poems / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

This wound is a world : poems / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

By
Belcourt, Billy-Ray.

Publication Date
2017

Publication Information
Calgary, Alta. : Frontenac House Poetry,

Physical Description
63 p.

Subject Term
Cree Indians -- Poetry.
 
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
 
Canadian poetry.
 
Indigenous peoples.
 
Poetry.

Summary
Part manifesto, part memoir, an invitation to "cut a hole in the sky to world inside." Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs 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." Billy-Ray Belcourt is the first Indigenous person in Canada to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. He is from the Driftpile Cree Nation and is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

Language
English

ISBN
9781927823644


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
Corner Brook (WCB)Adult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous819.1 B41Checked In
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) HarmsworthAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous819.1 B41Checked In
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH)Adult NFicAdult Non-Fiction819.1 B41Checked In