The Idea of an Entire Life - Poems

A poetry collection that combines lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments to examine 21st-century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility for Indigenous life and resistance In Belcourt''s collection is both rigorous in research and thought and accessible in language and imagery. He contends with the afterlife of he calls "the long twentieth century," a century marked by assaults on Indigenous life and his peoples’ enduring resistance to them. Through lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments, Belcourt delivers a poignant examination of anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility. The poems, sometimes heartbreaking, other times sly and humorous, put to use the autobiographical and philosophical style that has come to define Belcourt’s body of work. By its close, the collection makes the urgent argument that we are each our own little statues of both grief and awe. His third book of poetry and sixth across genres, Billy-Ray Belcourt''s

Product details

• Authors: Billy-Ray Belcourt
• Publisher: BEACON PRESS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9780807022405
• ISBN: 978-0-8070-2240-5
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 190 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Raised Voices
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama