Nominee · Governor General's Literary Awards 2018
This Wound is a World
poetry book by Billy-Ray Belcourt
"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.'"--
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Genre
- poetry
- Pages
- 64
- ISBN
- 9781927823644
- Subjects
- English literature, American poetry, Indian authors, Indians of North America, Poetry, Cree Indians, Gay men, Native peoples
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