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Billy-Ray Belcourt

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Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His books are: THIS WOUND IS A WORLD (Frontenac House 2017; UMinn Press 2019), winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, NDN COPING MECHANISMS (House of Anansi 2019), winner of the 2020 Stephan G. Stephansson Poetry Prize and longlisted for Canada Reads, A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY (Hamish Hamilton and Two Dollar Radio 2020), finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Prize for Non-Fiction and the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography, and the forthcoming A MINOR CHORUS: A NOVEL (Hamish Hamilton and Norton 2022). ...more

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A History of My Brief Body

4.17 avg rating — 5,681 ratings — published 2020
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A Minor Chorus

3.82 avg rating — 5,350 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions
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This Wound Is a World

4.43 avg rating — 2,639 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions
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Coexistence: Stories

4.26 avg rating — 1,800 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions
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NDN Coping Mechanisms: Note...

4.41 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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The Idea of an Entire Life:...

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“To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
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“I was lonely once and that was all it took. A thick haze, a smothering opacity, this was the loneliness of feeling estranged from one’s body and, by extension, the world. My loneliness asked nothing of me, it festered with inattention. Rarely did it think out loud. I neglected my loneliness and it expanded with animosity. My loneliness grew into a forest atop me.”
Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“To my mind, joy is a constitutive part of the emotional rhetoric and comportment of those against whom the present swells at an annihilating pace. With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.”
Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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