![]() Belcourt tears at these expectations, mourns them, cradles them, wallows in sadness. ![]() He is queer, he is brown, he is a modern Indigenous man in a world that wants to keep those people in the past. It’s about a boy who yearns to be loved, who is heartbroken and torn apart by the many ways he doesn’t live up to society’s expectations. His second book of poetry, NDN Coping Mechanisms, charges forward, stays vulnerable, and engages with the political, the historical, and the dark rooms of the heart. ![]() His brilliant academic brain took him to Oxford, as the first-ever Indigenous Rhodes Scholar. His first book of poetry, This Wound Is a World, made him the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. ![]() How? I picture him pulled from a bubbling golden pond of primordial goo, body fully-formed, mind sharp-sharper than any of us-bashful and steadfast. ![]()
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