The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems

$25.00

Synopsis:

Daring and vulnerable, this is the highly anticipated new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt.

In The Idea of An Entire Life, Belcourt delivers an intimate examination of twenty-first-century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility. Through lyric verse, sonnets, fieldnotes, and fragments, the poems, sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes slyly humorous, are always finely crafted, putting 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 grief and awe.

Reviews
"To read Billy-Ray Belcourt’s The Idea of An Enitre Life is to experience genre as a place between landscapes, but also beyond them: horizon as 'line break,' infrastructure as 'wound,' 'an image of a forest someone else/was supposed to know by heart.' These poems are achingly beautiful. Belcourt writes what’s already broken, breaking in real-time, 'in order to repair it.' How this new form might arrive, 'miraculously' but also diligently, an act of recuperation and courage that’s on-going, 'meandering' but also (always) 'incomplete,' becomes what happens when we read."—Bhanu Kapil

Additional Information
96 pages | 5.00" x 7.50" | Hardcover 

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