Whereas / Layli Long Soldier.
2017
PS3612.O526 A6 2017
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Title
Whereas / Layli Long Soldier.
Author
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
ISBN
9781555977672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1555977677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1555977677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
Description
101 pages ; 23 cm
Exhibited
2018 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS3612.O526 A6 2017
Summary
This volume confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through an array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created an innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. "I am," she writes, "a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation -- and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Part I: These being the concerns
Part II: Whereas.
Part II: Whereas.
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