NDN Coping Mechanisms

In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prizewinning 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 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 possibilities 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 Fieldemerges 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. (From House of Anansi Press)

Billy-Ray Belcourtisa writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his first poetry collection,This Wound is a World.

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Interviews with Billy-Ray Belcourt

As It Happens6:34U of A student named first-ever First Nations Rhodes Scholar

Billy-Ray Belcourt is one of three University of Alberta students to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and he's the first First Nations student to be awarded the prize.

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