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This Wound Is a World Paperback – September 3, 2019

by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
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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 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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    72 pages
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  3. Publisher
    Univ Of Minnesota Press
  4. Publication date
    September 3, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1517908450
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1517908454
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"This Wound Is a World is a decolonial wildfire from which the acclaimed writer Billy-Ray Belcourt builds a new world and it’s the brilliant, radiant, f*cked up Indigenous world I want to live in. . . . [His book] redefines poetics as a refusal of colonial erasure, a radical celebration of Indigenous life and our beautiful, intimate rebellion. This is a breathtaking masterpiece."—Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer and musician

"This book is a monument for the future of poetic possibility. It is rare to be able to call a book something so grand and full—and have it be utterly true. That's what This Wound Is a World affords us: myth and hyperbole pressed into a lived and realized life. A reckoning for and of the wreck—bravely buoyant, alive, and finally here."—Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds

"This Wound Is a World is a wonder. It is filled with humor, sadness, sadness about sadness, sex, profound and profane lyricism, and above all power. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s voice is uniquely plangent and self-aware. The book is a world with worlds inside it. It means to de-colonize any possible reader’s pre- or mis-conceptions about what it means to be alive and Indian today."—Tommy Orange, author of There There



"This luminous collection’s formal experimentation arises from an urgent need to address the complexity of learning “how to love and be broken at the same time.” As the title suggests, woundedness is a resource for forging avenues toward a yet unimagined future."—Star Tribune

"This collection is an answer to and a reckoning with story and with sadness itself: its ever-presence in the telling of the Indigenous body, the queer body, the body moving through stages of love and loss."—American Poets

"Belcourt makes good on the promise of his title through poetry in which sadness, grief, and death are seamlessly entwined with love, sex, and cruising  both within and across racial lines."—Native American and Indigenous Studies 

About the Author

Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada’s first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. This Wound Is a World 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, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, will be published in fall 2019.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1st edition (September 3, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 72 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1517908450
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1517908454
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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  • Avid reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning. Sad. Transformative
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2020
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    Billy Ray-Belcourt has delivered a stunning and powerful collection of poems. The poems are saturated with a sadness and self awareness about the affective condition of indigeneity that shook me to my core. Deep resonance with Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return. The introduction and epilogue are as moving as the poems and Belcourt doesn't shy away from the sadness of the work but instead insists that we might read sadness as itself a condition of possibility for a different, deeper kind of relationality beyond coloniality.
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  • Matowin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry on fire!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2021
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    Love the poet’s way with words.
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  • Madelyn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent
    Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2024
    This is my third BRB book, and each time I feel like I leave more speechless than the last. He has a way of articulating words and situations and feelings that I can’t help but hold my breath, waiting to see what else he says and describes. Through this collection of poetry, Belcourt explores and lays before the reader queer, Indigenous life and all of the emotions that are held within it.

    CW: sexual content, colonization, racism, death, violence, genocide, domestic and emotional abuse
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars queer poetry with a haunting message
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2020
    This Wound Is a World manages to pack queerness and the struggles of life in America as a Native American and a whole lot of heart in just 74 pages. It's pretty amazing, both in prose and in message.
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  • Caroline D.
    5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic collection
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019
    A fantastic collection on queerness and indigeneity
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  • Amino
    5.0 out of 5 stars Touching and so beautifully tender
    Reviewed in Canada on June 19, 2018
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    I'd like to start with the fact that it's been so long since I've read a collection of poems that I wanted to savour and even as I got to the Epilogue (which I loved, dearly, because of the reference to Cvetkovich's essay that I studied in a class I was absolutely blown away by this semester), I knew it would the first of many times I'd read it.

    The poems were varying in their forms and styles and the content matched the poetic line of its page and there was a natural cadence to each as I'd read them under my breath because poetry is meant to live off the page and sit happily on our lips, in our bodies, in our hearts – that's why I love it so much, it's more than just the words, it's the feelings they evoke and I swear nothing carries emotion better than good poetry. But this is great poetry, and it reached into me and drew feelings I thought I'd stopped feelings and made room for new ones.

    I've been meaning to read this collection of poems for so long that I was a little afraid of how much of an impact it would have on me when I finally did. I'm a firm believer in the idea that there is a time and place for each work of literature one consumes and I can strongly say that this was the right book at the right moment.

    This book is probably means (and is going to mean) so many different things to the audience that reaches and that's the beauty of it. The author explores his identity and doesn't alienate in the process, it's a journey of self-discovery and reflection invites the reader to do some inner work. These poems don't claim to heal, but they can definitely lead the way to a hopeful start.
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  • A D P
    5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone need to read this !
    Reviewed in Canada on September 6, 2020
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    This is not just a book, but many pieces of soul waved like a dreamcatcher's web and truthfully shared without dulling, diluting or exaggerating any colour, any shade of truth. YOU MUST READ IT: you'll feel those poems deep in your bones days after reading them.
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  • Karen Rose
    5.0 out of 5 stars Uhhhmazing
    Reviewed in Canada on November 1, 2018
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    Glad to finally have a copy, love this poet.
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  • lsv
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in Canada on June 29, 2019
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    bought as a gift because of the nature of the book, written by a Indigenous young man who has accomplished so much is so little time
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  • drew small
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2018
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    What a magnificent, generous, and powerful work.
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