This wound is a world : poems /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Calgary :
Frontenac House Poetry,
[2017]
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| 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.' |
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| Physical Description: | 63 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781927823644 1927823641 9781927823767 1927823765 |