This Wound is a World Gratitude She convinces herself that these

She convinces herself that these creatures

and Eileen identifies as Dene Dedline

creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor

Grandmother's Bay

Ens dismisses the standard account of the Metis that stresses their Aboriginal heritage

This Wound is a World Gratitude She convinces herself that thesePart manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to "cut a hole in the sky to world inside." Billy Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven.