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NDN coping mechanisms : notes from the field / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Summary:

"In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt writes using the modes of accusation and interrogation. He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In this genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of Indigenous suffering are everywhere, so too is evidence of Indigenous peoples' rogue possibility, their utopian drive. In NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, the poet takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream portrayals of Indian life, love and its discontents, and the limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation. In the process, Belcourt once again demonstrates his extraordinary craft, guile, and audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his imagination."-- Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781487005771
ISBN: 1487005776
ISBN: 9781487005795
ISBN: 1487005792
Physical Description: 94 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: [Toronto] : House of Anansi Press Inc. 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-91).
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.