{"product_id":"the-idea-of-an-entire-billy-ray-belcourt-9780807022405","title":"The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poetry collection that combines lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments to examine 21st-century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility for Indigenous life and resistance\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of an Entire Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBelcourt's collection is both rigorous in research and thought and accessible in language and imagery. He contends with the afterlife of he calls \"the long twentieth century,\" a century marked by assaults on Indigenous life and his peoples' enduring resistance to them. Through lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments, Belcourt delivers a poignant examination of anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility. The poems, sometimes heartbreaking, other times sly and humorous, put to use 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis third book of poetry and sixth across genres, Billy-Ray Belcourt's \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of an Entire Life \u003c\/i\u003eleaves readers with a vision for queer Indigenous life as it is shaped by a violent history and pulled toward a more flourishing future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Billy-Ray Belcourt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807022403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807022405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Billy-Ray Belcourt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46838456746239,"sku":"9780807022405","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ba1a5144-c316-4139-b449-e5e4c2633d79.jpg?v=1746589890","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-idea-of-an-entire-billy-ray-belcourt-9780807022405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}