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This Wound Is a World
- Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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. “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.”
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.
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- Raine Crandall
- 2023-12-17
Heals my heart
Than you Billy-Ray for your beautiful words, as a queer trans guy, your words show me a new, or old yet more me way of being.
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- M.C..
- 2020-09-24
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This Book is Brilliant!
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to his perspective.
He is very Inspiring!
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-07-27
poweful
beautiful, thoughtful, emotive words from a brilliant mind. BRB4PM! ❤️. more words because Audible can't appreciate succinctness.
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- Sierra Skye
- 2020-08-27
Best book of poetry
Probably the best book of poetry I’ve ever read. Not suitable for racists (who seem to be everywhere right now). 10/10 would read again.
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