Poetry is a process of listening for what can’t be heard (à la Judith Butler), which is perhaps what Ben Lerner means when he says poetry is the ongoing failure to produce the planetary music we ascribe to it in its purest form. Why did you turn to poetry?īelcourt: I’m reminded of something Dionne Brand said, which was something to the effect of: you don’t make a living writing poetry, you make a life. We spoke with Belcourt before his September 10 conversation at the AGO with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and learned about his genre-bending work, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field.ĪGO: You’re an academic and a writer. He made history as the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for his debut poetry collection, This Wound is a World. Billy-Ray Belcourt is a name to know in the world of poetry.
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