E-book
NDN coping mechanisms : notes from the field
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487005788
- ISBN: 9781487007164
- ISBN: 1487005784
- ISBN: 1487007167
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1 online resource. - Publisher: Toronto : Anansi, 2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Poems. |
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| Subject: | Poetry POETRY / Canadian Poetry |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Poetry. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
"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 ofthe 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."-- - House Of Anansi
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourtâs Griffin Poetry Prizeâwinning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses 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 a 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 peoplesâ 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 Indigenous 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.
- House Of Anansi
The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prizeâwinning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.
