{"product_id":"this-wound-is-a-world-9781517908454","title":"This Wound Is a World by Belcourt, Billy-Ray","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man--available for the first time in the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative.\" Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003e This Wound Is a World\u003c\/i\u003e, is \"a prayer against breaking,\" writes trans Anishinaabe and M tis poet Gwen Benaway. \"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. This book is what we've been waiting for.\" \u003cp\u003ePart manifesto, part memoir, \u003ci\u003eThis Wound Is a World \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Billy-Ray Belcourt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517908454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada's first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. \u003ci\u003eThis Wound Is a World\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and a 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. His second book, \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in fall 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43655704477849,"sku":"9781517908454","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/img_c0fafb2c-edf5-4f7a-af2c-88c92bdc55d8.jpg?v=1724704254","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/this-wound-is-a-world-9781517908454","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}