NDN coping mechanisms : notes from the field / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487005771
- ISBN: 9781487005795
- ISBN: 1487005776
- ISBN: 1487005792
- Physical Description: 94 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Anansi, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Poems. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A country is how men hunt -- NDN brothers -- The terrible beauty of the Reserve -- A lover's discourse -- What to an NDN is the intrinsic goodness of mankind? -- The wall clock caught fire from neglect -- I become less of who I am by the second -- Cree girl bloews up the Necropolis of Ottawa -- At the mercy of the sky -- A romance of the present -- I douche while Kesha's "Praying" plays from my iPhone on repeat -- Leonardo DiCaprio -- Duplex (the future's a fist) -- Canadian horror story -- Regarding death, I turn to the photon -- Canadian sonnet -- NDN homo sonnet -- Treaty 8 -- Ars poetica -- Flesh -- Melancholy's forms -- Hypotheses -- Desire made waste out of time -- Red utopia -- Notes from the field -- Fragments ending with a requiem -- I believe I exist. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |
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Genre: | Poetry. Poetry. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 811.6 BEL (Text) | 000154892 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
NDN Coping Mechanisms : Notes from the Field
BILLY-RAY BELCOURT (he/him) is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His debut book of poems, This Wound is a World, won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. It was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian poetry collections of the year. Billy-Ray is a Ph.D. student and a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds a Master's degree in Women's Studies from Wadham College at the University of Oxford.