This Wound Is a World

This Wound Is a WorldThe new edition of a prize winning memoir in poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous manavailable for the first time in the United States. i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative. Billy Ray Belcourts debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is a prayer against breaking, writes trans Anishinaabe and Mtis poet Gwen Benaway. By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with

In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life

he documents the impact of the acculturation process on the language

The book concludes with a consideration of how oral historians' memories can be applied to building healthier communities today

She wanted a better life for her son

into imagined story cycles

plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature

Leslie Marmon Silko

and audacity

No one knew where Clarke had gone

of determination against all odds

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the reservation wheeling all around him like the whole of Blackfeet history hurtling towards him