Displaying 1 of 1 2017 Format: Book Author: Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author Title: This wound is a world : poems / Billy-Ray Belcourt. Publisher, Date: Calgary, AB : Frontenac House Poetry, [2017] Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] ©2017 Description: 63 pages ; 23 cm x, 61 pages ; 23 cm Summary: Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is 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 and essays upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where 'everyone is at least a little gay'. Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Poetry Canadian poetry Canadian poetry -- 21st century Indigenous peoples -- Alberta -- Poetry Cree Indians -- Poetry Two-spirit people -- Canada -- Poetry Gay people's writings Authors, Canadian -- Alberta Canadian poetry -- Indigenous authors Canadian literature -- Indigenous authors Genre: Gay poetry Poetry Notes: 2017 Best Canadian Poetry Book - CBC Books. Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Contents: Love and heartbreak are fuck buddies -- Cree word for a body like mine is weesageechak -- Gay incantations -- Notes from a public washroom -- There is a dirt road in me -- Wihtikowak means "men who can't survive love" -- Rez sisters II -- Six theses on why Native people die -- Sacred -- History of the present -- We were never meant to break like this -- I am hoping to help this city heal from its trauma -- Heartbeark is a white kid -- If I have a body, let it be a book of sad poems -- Grief after grief and grief after grief -- Creator is trans -- Back alley of the world -- Native too -- Colonialism: a love story -- God's river -- Love and other experiments -- OkCupid -- Towards a theory of decolonization -- An elegy for flesh -- Everyone is lonely -- There is no beautiful left -- Boyfriend poems -- God must be an Indian -- Sexual history -- Time contra time -- Something like love -- Ode to northern Alberta -- Oxford journal -- If our bodies could rust, we would be falling apart -- Rubble of heartbreak -- Wapekeka -- Ode to native men -- To speak of the dead, I must begin with the photon -- Hermeneutics of the sometimes/somewhere -- Love is a moontime teaching. ISBN: 9781927823644 (softcover) 9781517908454 (softcover) Other Number: 992558862 System Availability: 15 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 15 Control Number: 1669299 Call Number: 811.6 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 14 # System items in: 14 Place Request Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Suggestions and more Map It Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
