NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle…
Want to Read $ 9.99"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
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By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
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"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
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4. Half-Breed
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5. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
4.25
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From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more
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6. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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7. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
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1.75
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8. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
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9. The Tradition
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4.24
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"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
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3.99
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
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4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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12. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
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4.44
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"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
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"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
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4.18
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
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3.01
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
17. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
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4.16
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18. Split Tooth
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
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"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
19. Making Love with the Land: Essays
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4.11
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A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
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"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
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4.33
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"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
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29. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle… read more
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"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
30. How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems
By: Kate Camp
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A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed poe… read more
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31. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
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“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more
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"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
