This Wound is a World

Paperback, 64 pages

Published Sept. 1, 2017 by Frontenac House Ltd..

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978-1-927823-64-4
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The 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

“i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative.” 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 …

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This World is a Wound

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Es el primer poemario que termino completo en lo que va de año (porque me estaba achuchando la biblioteca y la gente que lo tenía en espera? Es posible) y me ha encantado. Tiene el punto justo entre identidad de género, orientación sexual y raza que me apetecía este momento, con poemas que me han sabido a comienzo de historia. Letransversal tiene edición en castellano y me quedo con ganas de pillármela y echarle un ojo