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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Calgary :
Frontenac House Poetry,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- The Cree word for a body like mine is weesageechak
- Love and heartbeak are fuck buddies
- Gay incantations
- Notes from a public washroom
- There is a dirt road in me
- Wihtikowak means "men who can't survive love"
- The rez sisters II
- Six theses on why Native people die
- Sacred
- A 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
- The creator is trans
- The back alley of the world
- Native too
- Colonialsim: a love story
- God's river
- Love and other experiments
- Towards a theory of decolonization
- Okcupid
- 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
- The Oxford journal
- If our bodies could rust, we would be falling apart
- The rubble of heartbreak
- Wapekea
- Love is a moontime teaching.