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Author Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author.

Title A history of my brief body / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Publication Info. Columbus, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2026154~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  814.6 BEL    AVAILABLE
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Description 140 pages ; 20 cm
Contents Preface: a letter to Nôhkom -- Introduction: A short theoretical note -- An NDN boyhood -- A history of my brief body -- Futuromania -- Gay: 8 scenes -- Loneliness in the age of Grindr -- Fragments from a half-existence -- An alphabet of longing -- Robert -- Notes from an archive of injuries -- Please keep loving: reflections on unlivability -- Fatal naming rituals -- To hang our grief up to dry.
Summary This brilliant new essay collection on grief, colonial violence, joy, love and queerness from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize touches upon his personal history and demonstrates the power of words to both devastate and console us.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Poets, Canadian -- Biography.
Gays -- Canada -- Biography.
Racism.
Sex.
Canada.
Genre Essays.
ISBN 1937512932
9781937512934
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