A much-needed #OwnVoices story centered on First Nations characters and culture

and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest

the reserve

and the promise of a future

”—Lynne Rossetto Kasper

NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field history A much-needed #OwnVoices story centeredIn the follow up to his Griffin Poetry Prizewinning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy Ray Belcourt writes using the modes of accusation and interrogation. He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of