![]() ![]() "Best Books of 2017" - PRISM International (x2) The best book of "Canadian poetry" of 2017 - CBC Books His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.” Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to world inside.” Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. ![]() A reckoning for and of the wreck - bravely buoyant, and finally here.” Ocean Vuong. ![]() That’s what This Wound is a World affords us: myth and hyperbole pressed into a lived and realized life. It is rare to be able to call a book something so grand and full - and have it be utterly true. “This book is a monument for the future of poetic possibility. ![]()
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