“What constitutes an NDN?” In this book, Billy-Ray Belcourt turns this question around and around, exploring death, mourning, anger, violence, and the affects that result from them. Infused with popular culture, NDN Coping Mechanisms problematizes notions of indigeneity and queerness in an accessible way, grafting them onto the “Canadian horror story” that has been silenced for too long, while deconstructing the poem and the book, time and territory. Sometimes formalistic, always hard-hitting, Belcourt’s writing is an electroshock.