{"product_id":"a-history-of-my-brief-body-9781937512934","title":"A History of My Brief Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of \u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e by Terese Marie Mailhot, \u003ci\u003eA History of My Brief Body\u003c\/i\u003e is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes on grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray's writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, \u003ci\u003eA History of My Brief Body\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt\u003c\/b\u003e is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada's first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Wound Is a World\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and a 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. In 2018, Belcourt was named by CBC Books as one of \"14 Canadian poets to watch,\" one of \"18 emerging writers to watch,\" a \"Writer to know,\" and one of \"ten young Canadians to watch\" by the CBC. \u003ci\u003eA History of My Brief Body\u003c\/i\u003e marks his non-fiction debut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604886032658,"sku":"9781937512934","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d23a32b1-0e9c-47d5-afe1-2ffab6a2f2da.jpg?v=1765370872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-my-brief-body-9781937512934","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}