![]() ![]() It is theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the tyranny of sexual and racial norms. Billy-Ray Belcourts debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is a prayer against breaking, writes trans Anishinaabe and Metis poet Gwen Benaway. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where "everyone is at least a little gay." Presented here with several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to "cut a hole in the sky / to world inside." Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. ![]() ![]() This book is what we've been waiting for." 'By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. "By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. Billy-Ray Belcourts debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is 'a prayer against breaking,' writes trans Anishinaabe and Mtis poet Gwen Benaway. Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is "a prayer against breaking," writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. Billy-Ray Belcourt Author, Poet, Scholar This Wound is a World Rhodes Scholarship, 2016 CBCs Top Ten Poetry Collection, 2017 P.K. ![]()
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