PreviewsBilly-Ray Belcourt

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  A History of My Brief Body

  Billy-Ray Belcourt

  This memoir by the youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize opens with memories of his early life in Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation, and expands to encompass the legacy of colonial violence, first loves, sexual exploration, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and as a way to grieve.

  (Penguin Canada, $25.00 Hardcover, 192 pages, ISBN: 978-07-35237-78-0)  

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  Coexistence

  Stories

  Billy-Ray Belcourt

  In these stories set across the Prairies and the West Coast, on reserves and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, characters search for meaning and connection. Belcourt demonstrates yet again his mastery of and playfulness in any genre.

  (Penguin Canada, $29.95 Hardcover, 200 pages, ISBN: 978-07-35242-03-6)  

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  NDN Coping Mechanisms

  Notes from the Field

  Billy-Ray Belcourt

  This new collection by the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning Belcourt uses poetry, poetics, prose, and textual art to take a playful, candid, and campy look at what is missed by mainstream media when it comes to NDN and queer social worlds.

  (House of Anansi Press Inc, Paperback, 112 pages, ISBN: 978-14-87005-77-1)