The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems by Belcourt, Billy-Ray

The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems

From award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in...
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The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems by Belcourt, Billy-Ray

The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems

$29.03

The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems

$29.03
Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in the 21st century

Queer Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belcourt offers up a powerful meditation on the present as a space where the past and a still-possible utopia collide. Rigorous in research and thought yet accessible in language and imagery, this collection weaves lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments to examine the delicate facets of queer Indigeneity.

Belcourt contends with the afterlife of what he calls "the long twentieth century," a period marked by assaults on Indigenous life, and his people's enduring resistance. The poems, sometimes heartbreaking, other times sly and humorous, are marked by 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 both grief and awe.

His third book of poetry and sixth across genres, Billy-Ray Belcourt's The Idea of an Entire Life leaves readers with a vision for queer Indigenous life as it is shaped by a violent history--and yet pulled toward a more flourishing future.

Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780807022405


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2025

About the Author
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is the author of 6 books, including the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning debut This Wound Is a World. Belcourt serves the Canada Research Chair in Queer Indigenous Cultural Production at the University of British Columbia, edits poetry for Hazlitt, and is the founder of oteh nîkân, an online magazine of LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous writing.

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