Billy-Ray Belcourt Books

In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to spot the much that is left unsaid when we look only to the mainstream media. In this genre-bending work, Belcourt employs poetry, poetics, prose, and textual art to illuminate the rogue possibility bubbling up everywhere NDNs are. Part One examines the rhythms of everyday life, which include the terrible beauty of the reserve, the afterlives of history, and the grammar of anal sex. Part Two experiments with form and practice, putting to use, for example, a mode of documentary poetics that unearths the logics that make and unmake texts like Treaty 8. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field emerges out of a form of auto/ethnographic sensibility that is at turns campy and playful, jarring and candid, displaying, once again, the writer's extraordinary craft, guile, audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his imagination.

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man--Publisher's description.

Preface : a letter to Nôhkom -- Introduction A short theoretical note -- An NDN boyhood -- A history of my brief body -- Futuromania -- Gay: 8 scenes -- Loneliness in the age of Grindr -- Fragments from a half-existence -- An alphabet of longing -- Robert -- Notes from an archive of injuries -- Please keep loving : reflections on unlivability -- Fatal naming rituals -- To hang our grief up to dry.

A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.

Exploring themes of Indigenous love and loneliness, this collection weaves together intersecting narratives that highlight the complexities of human connection. The author, known for their expansive literary vision, delves into the emotional landscapes of their characters, offering a profound reflection on identity and belonging within Indigenous communities. Each story reveals unique perspectives, inviting readers to experience the richness and depth of these intertwined lives.

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus.