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• Title:[Poems. Selections]
  This wound is a world / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
  
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• Author/Creator:Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author.
  
• Published/Created:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YP B452 T45 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-23-2024
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples
  Cree.
  
• Genre/Form:Poems.
  
• Edition:First University of Minnesota Press edition.
  
• Description: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." 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. 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. 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.
  
• Notes:Originally published in 2017 by Frontenac House -- Verso title page.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781517908454 paperback alkaline paper
  1517908450 paperback alkaline paper
  9781452962245 electronic book
  1452962243 electronic book
  9781452962238 electronic book
  1452962235 electronic book
  
• Contents:Preface
  This Wound Is A World
  Love and Heartbreak Are Fuck Buddies
  The 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"
  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
  Heartbreak Is a White Kid
  If I Have a Body, Let It Be a Book of Sad Poems
  Grief after Grief after Grief after Grief
  The Creator Is Trans
  The 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
  The Oxford Journal
  If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart
  The 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
  Epilogue.