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silasburke's review
4.25
“This Wound is a World is a book obsessed with the unbodied.”
“It seems difficult to speak of or ontologize indigineity without conjuring sadness and death. . . . I think our closeness to sadness and to misery enables a reworking of the codes of bad affect, enabling us to free them from the apoliticized cages of pathology and the private.” (<— from the epilogue)
Fav poems: There is a Dirt Road in Me; Sacred, We Were Never Meant to Break Like This, Native Too, Boyfriend Poems, The Oxford Journal, Ode to Native Men
“It seems difficult to speak of or ontologize indigineity without conjuring sadness and death. . . . I think our closeness to sadness and to misery enables a reworking of the codes of bad affect, enabling us to free them from the apoliticized cages of pathology and the private.” (<— from the epilogue)
Fav poems: There is a Dirt Road in Me; Sacred, We Were Never Meant to Break Like This, Native Too, Boyfriend Poems, The Oxford Journal, Ode to Native Men
okjaaaaa's review
5.0
Loneliness in fact evinces a new world on the horizon.
There were tears from the first poem, and they did not stop.
There were tears from the first poem, and they did not stop.
k_ko's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
5.0
I am stunned. Billy Ray Belcourt’s poetry opened me up and laid hands on my heart. The Wound is A World is some of the most gripping and memorable poetry I have experienced in years.
brice_mo's review
5.0
An exceptional example of poetry as praxis.
Billy-Ray Belcourt is so achingly precise in how he uses language, and he avoids many of the weaknesses commonly found in such explicitly intersectional writing.
Billy-Ray Belcourt is so achingly precise in how he uses language, and he avoids many of the weaknesses commonly found in such explicitly intersectional writing.
grayjay's review
5.0
This book made me feel so many feelings! He brings you into a world of indigenous grief and loneliness and then shows you how it is real and necessary to grieve.
In "Something Like Sadness" he says "there are days when being in life feels like consenting to the cruelties that hold up the world."
His book also does what I think the best books of poetry do: both document lives and perspectives and open our minds and hearts to new lives and perspectives.
In "Something Like Sadness" he says "there are days when being in life feels like consenting to the cruelties that hold up the world."
His book also does what I think the best books of poetry do: both document lives and perspectives and open our minds and hearts to new lives and perspectives.
butlerebecca's review
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, and Child death
Moderate: Sexual violence