NDN coping mechanisms : notes from the field

Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author.

Book

[Toronto] : Anansi, 2019.

©2019

94 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

"In this genre-bending work, Belcourt employs poetry, poetics, prose, and textual art to illuminate the rogue possibility bubbling up everywhere NDNs are. This book 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."-- Provided by publisher.

LGBTQ+ people.

Queer people.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

Indians of North America -- Alberta -- Poetry.

Cree Indians -- Poetry.

Gay men -- Poetry.

Indian gay people -- Poetry.

Gay poetry.

LGBTQ+ poetry.

Queer poetry.

Poetry.

Poems. Selections

Indian coping mechanisms

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.

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