Indians of North America - Alberta - Poetry.īelcourt, Billy-Ray. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web. 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. The Cree word for a body like mine is weesageechak - Love and heartbreak 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 - Colonialism: 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.Įlectronic reproduction. Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt (Author) Summary: 'Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to cut a hole in the sky to world inside. Includes bibliographical references (page 61). Description based on print version record.
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